January 11, 2021

20: “De-centring the human” – Robot (and other non-human) Rights author Josh Gellers - Sentientist Conversation

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1 hour 16 minutes

Josh Gellers is an associate professor at the University of North Florida. His work spans animal, environmental and artificial intelligence ethics and law. He is a research fellow with the Earth System Governance Project and is a Fulbright scholar. He is Author of “Rights for Robots: Artificial Intelligence, Animal and Environmental Law” (open access!).

Full show notes are here: https://sentientism.info/de-centring-the-human-new-sentientist-conversation-with-josh-gellers-also-happy-new-year

In these Sentientist Conversations (subscribe!), we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “what matters?”. Sentientism is “evidence, commitment & compassion for all sentient beings.”

Our conversation is also here on YouTube.

We discuss:

Seeing the impact of climate first hand in South Florida

Spanning “hard” and social sciences, rights, ethics and law, animal, environmental and artificial intelligence… inter-disciplinary

Sophia the robot and non-human entity rights

Growing up in a culturally Jewish household, with a mix of conservative religious and more secular liberal perspectives

Doubting religion from an early age

How could there be an omnipotent, omniscient, all-loving god when there is so much suffering?

Seeing examples of sexism and societal shaming within orthodox religion

Kosher laws as historic public health recommendations

Exposure to Buddhist animal ethics in Sri Lanka (living with spiders)

“Other ways of knowing and worlding” and pluralism

Wanting to say there are certain universals, but hesitating to say “I have the right way”

Guilt and consciousness about how to be in the world

Learning, respecting, humility, open-mindedness, compassion

Doing the above without slipping into a relativism that allows the powerful to oppress others

Critical environmental ethic with underlying pillars: Compassionate, resilience, sensitivity to the needs of others – ground rules as a safety net vs. relativism

Needlessly causing harm isn’t compassionate, whatever your cultural norms

People who care about people they know and people who care about people they don’t know

And more... Full show notes are here: https://sentientism.info/de-centring-the-human-new-sentientist-conversation-with-josh-gellers-also-happy-new-year

Josh is @JoshGellers and his home page is at joshgellers.com.

Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at sentientism.info. Join our “wall” using this simple form.

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January 11, 2021

20: “De-centring the human” – Robot (and other non-human) Rights author Josh Gellers - Sentientist Conversation

Listen Later

1 hour 16 minutes

Josh Gellers is an associate professor at the University of North Florida. His work spans animal, environmental and artificial intelligence ethics and law. He is a research fellow with the Earth System Governance Project and is a Fulbright scholar. He is Author of “Rights for Robots: Artificial Intelligence, Animal and Environmental Law” (open access!).

Full show notes are here: https://sentientism.info/de-centring-the-human-new-sentientist-conversation-with-josh-gellers-also-happy-new-year

In these Sentientist Conversations (subscribe!), we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “what matters?”. Sentientism is “evidence, commitment & compassion for all sentient beings.”

Our conversation is also here on YouTube.

We discuss:

Seeing the impact of climate first hand in South Florida

Spanning “hard” and social sciences, rights, ethics and law, animal, environmental and artificial intelligence… inter-disciplinary

Sophia the robot and non-human entity rights

Growing up in a culturally Jewish household, with a mix of conservative religious and more secular liberal perspectives

Doubting religion from an early age

How could there be an omnipotent, omniscient, all-loving god when there is so much suffering?

Seeing examples of sexism and societal shaming within orthodox religion

Kosher laws as historic public health recommendations

Exposure to Buddhist animal ethics in Sri Lanka (living with spiders)

“Other ways of knowing and worlding” and pluralism

Wanting to say there are certain universals, but hesitating to say “I have the right way”

Guilt and consciousness about how to be in the world

Learning, respecting, humility, open-mindedness, compassion

Doing the above without slipping into a relativism that allows the powerful to oppress others

Critical environmental ethic with underlying pillars: Compassionate, resilience, sensitivity to the needs of others – ground rules as a safety net vs. relativism

Needlessly causing harm isn’t compassionate, whatever your cultural norms

People who care about people they know and people who care about people they don’t know

And more... Full show notes are here: https://sentientism.info/de-centring-the-human-new-sentientist-conversation-with-josh-gellers-also-happy-new-year

Josh is @JoshGellers and his home page is at joshgellers.com.

Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at sentientism.info. Join our “wall” using this simple form.

Everyone interested, Sentientist or not, is welcome to join our groups. Our main one is here on FaceBook.

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