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Aysha (@DrAyshaAkhtar & ayshaakhtar.com) is a neurologist, public health specialist & author. She is President & CEO of the Center for Contemporary Sciences. She worked for the Office of Counterterrorism & Emerging Threats of the FDA & served as Lieutenant Commander in the US Public Health Service. She is a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. Aysha wrote: “Animals & Public Health: Why treating animals better is critical to human welfare.“
In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “what matters?” Sentientism is “evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” The audio is also on our Podcast – subscribe here on Apple & here on the other platforms.
We discuss:
0:00 Welcome & Sentientism
2:10 Aysha Intro
4:27 What’s Real? Renouncing Islam, becoming atheist
15:50 What Matters Morally? All suffering & flourishing beings
31:05 What are sentience & consciousness?
38:03 The Future – Star Trek? Ending animal research & testing
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