Future Based Podcast

Future Based Podcast


Sentientism: Evidence Based Compassion

November 10, 2020

In this second Beyond Human Relations podcast, Annika van den Born goes into conversation with Jamie Woodhouse, the (unwilfully) declared spokesman of Sentientism. Sentientism is a philosophy or worldview – a way of thinking about what to believe and what we should care about. Sentientists use scientific evidence and reason to work out what to believe in, so they reject supernatural beliefs. Sentientists also have compassion for all sentient beings – any being capable of suffering. Usually, this concerns human and nonhuman animals. What are exemplary cases for the broad practice of Sentientism? And what are the difficulties that Sentientists have to cope with in their research?