Here’s our wall of sentientists. If, like them, you’re committed to evidence and reason and have compassion for all sentient beings, why not join them and add your tile here.
I’m a Sentientist “because that’s the position that leaves me with least cognitive dissonance.”
@apoorvamagic
No sentient being is on this Earth FOR us, they are here WITH us. Their lives are no less important than ours.
Why Sentientism?: “It’s a relevant characteristic meaning I should extend moral status and consideration – sentient beings have interests that I take into account. That’s why I’m vegan.”
Abolish All Suffering!
Find our Sentientist Conversation here on the Sentientism YouTube and here on the Sentientism Podcast.
Katie is a theoretical cosmologist who holds the Hawking Chair in Cosmology and Science Communication at Perimeter Institute. Her academic research investigates dark matter, vacuum decay and the epoch of reionisation. Katie is also a popular science communicator who participates in social media and regularly writes for Scientific American, Slate, Sky & Telescope, Time and Cosmos. She is the author of the book “The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)”
Katie is vegan and has a sentiocentric moral scope. She has a naturalistic worldview, saying here: “I had a lot of trouble believing in anything that I didn’t have strong evidence for. It comes back to the scientific view point maybe. I didn’t have religious experiences. I didn’t have a feeling of connection with the divine. I wanted that feeling of connection … I found the practice very meaningful, but I never got the faith.”
Katie on Wikipedia
@AstroKatie
astrokatie.com
Disorientation, a poem by Katie
You can’t argue with reason and compassion based logic that says we should treat all life forms that are self aware and can feel pain in ways that help them flourish and avoid suffering.
Christine on FaceBook
Christine’s Writing on Local Matters
artbychristinerose.com
Christine’s Tumblr Blog
Compassion for animal suffering.
I am primarily vegan for animal rights, and an atheist because I believe religion to be dangerous and pointless.
I believe in Sentientism absolutely.
I believe absolutely in Sentientism!
Alene is the President and Founder of Legal Impact for Chickens. She graduated from Harvard Law School, clerked for a federal judge and then started litigating for animals. She has worked at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the Animal Legal Defense Fund, and The Good Food Institute. Alene is licensed to practice law in New York, the District of Columbia, and California. Alene is committed to helping chickens to honor the memories of her two beloved avian family members, Conrad and Zeke.
Alene has a non-religious, naturalistic worldview (with a strong sceptical streak…). She is vegan and has a sentiocentric moral scope.
Find our Sentientist Conversation here on the Sentientism YouTube and here on the Sentientism Podcast.
I’m a Sentientist because “Compassion and logic”.
Chaitanya is Assistant Professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in the Centre for Regulatory Policy and Governance. He has a PhD in Economics. Chaitanya’s research interests include economic development strategies in the global south, structural change, economic development and regulatory policy, urban economics, and non-anthropocentric strategies/alternatives to anthropocentric value systems in progress and conservation including food systems research (and maybe Sentientist Economics?)
In addition to his academic work, Chaitanya has published articles on economic development, inequality and on the intersection of Hinduism, politics and animal ethics in India.
Chaitanya has a naturalistic worldview and, at least, a sentiocentric moral scope.
Find our Sentientist Conversation here on the Sentientism YouTube and here on the Sentientism podcast.
@chaitanyatalrej
@eat_plants_stay_fit
Chaitanya on ResearchGate
Now there is a term for what I’ve always believed since I was a small child – Sentientism! Yay!
Evidence and reason.
Carol is an author, artist, animal activist and scholar whose work focuses on the reality of animals’ lives as important contributors to the biodiversity of this planet. She is Professor Emerita of Design and Dynamic Media and Critical and Cultural Studies at the Emily Carr University of Design, Vancouver, BC. CANADA. Her most recent book is The Creative Lives of Animals.
Carol is vegan and has (at least) a sentiocentric moral scope. Carol is non-religious and has a broadly naturalistic worldview. She is happy to call herself a Sentientist – having joined our “wall“.
Find our Sentientist Conversation here on the Sentientism YouTube and here on the Sentientism podcast.
As an empath I’ve always been compassionate to all Sentient Beings. Vegan as I love Animals & Environment.
If something can suffer it deserves consideration for its wellbeing
Most of the problems we face are as much ethical as they are technological or economical or ecological.
We MUST support only the sentientist Artificial Intelligence projects or otherwise machines view us like animals and use us only how resources for his proposal, Sentientism is important to make a better world because we have sufficent resources to not generate unnecesary suffering.
I’m a Sentientist because it makes sense! Welcome to the future.
The universe has no obligation to make sense to us or to aid us in our search for and actualization of good. Sentience itself wasn’t evolved out of any good will towards us subjects but as an instrument of Nature to keep on replicating. As beings capable of self reflection and radical transformation of our environment, we have the responsibility to use that power to benefit the totality of sentient experience.
I’m a sentientist because we should not be inflicting, without necessity, great suffering upon others. It is that simple. We should instead try to reduce and minimize the amount of suffering — no matter who is the being who’s suffering — through, among other things, cultivating unbounded reason and unlimited compassion.