Mindscape 292 | Jonathan Birch on Animal Sentience. When do collections of matter start to have feelings, and how should we treat them? #MindscapePodcastwww.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024...

I'm willing to consider the question of machine sentience when we start treating entities that we're able to overwhemingly agree are sentient with the dignity that they deserve, and not a moment sooner.

I'm trying to guess by all the guests what the next book is going to be called. I think "the even bigger picture"

Dig deeper in Jonathan's book The Edge of Sentience Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI. Free to download! global.oup.com/academic/pro...