30/8/2020
Sentience: how to recognize and demonstrate the ability to feel.
Day for the end of Speciesism (WoDES).
Chat record:
19:06:50 De Vegan Option Canada : https://sentience-research.org/on-theories-of-sentience-a-talk-with-magnus-vinding/
19:08:34 De Vegan Option Canada : You can ask your questions to Manu Herran here and he will answer to them at the question period at the end of the presentation 🙂
19:33:15 De Vegan Option Canada : https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d72e78ebe277f3ec4400092/t/5f27071c5ae34367cb4b8f65/1596393244741/Beyond+Turing.pdf
19:33:24 De Peter (he/him) : Thanks
19:33:30 De Rémi Pénisson : Thanks 🙂
19:33:33 De Silvère : Thank you Manu !
19:33:43 De Vegan Option Canada : thank you manu
19:33:46 De Vegan Option Canada : What animals are not sentient according to research? are clams sentient?
19:36:32 De Vegan Option Canada : Next conference coming up at 14h00 Edt (in 14 minutes): L’activiste-stratège, lutter efficacement pour le droit des sentients (French conference)
19:37:14 De Vegan Option Canada : we do not see the slide if we were supposed to
19:37:35 De Vegan Option Canada : can we paste the links here please?
19:38:20 De Vegan Option Canada : Is that the precept of prevention in case of unknown variables?
19:38:39 De Oscar Horta : Thanks Manu! I have an objection. At Animal Ethics we don’t claim that the behavior of a being is relevant for inferring that such being is sentience because it’s like ours, but because it is of a certain complexity and type that suggests the being is sentient (as in the case of the octopus). Also, the physiology doesn’t need to be like ours for suggesting sentience, but be complex enough to process information in a complex way.
19:39:16 De Oscar Horta : (among other criteria).
19:40:27 De Sorin – Vegan Option Canada : aussi on the vois en ce moment
19:40:34 De Sorin – Vegan Option Canada : probablement sur le live fb
19:41:48 De Vegan Option Canada : Is it true that plants are not sentient and as a proof they can’t move around fast (react to a threat)? And what to say about carnivor plants that can move and even digest, do they still don’t feel pain ?
19:47:32 De Silvère : Are there degrees of sentience or graduality in sentience ? And if there is, how could we compare/quantify sentience ? And what would it imply morally speaking ?
19:48:11 De Alyssa – Vegan Option Canada : can some beings be only sentient while feeling , let’s say only positive emotions or only negative ones or does sentience automatically imply the possibility of both (positive and negative experience)?
19:53:50 De Sorin – Vegan Option Canada : Notre prochiane conference dans 7 minutes: L’activiste-stratège : lutter efficacement – Laura Le Brasseur
19:54:14 De Peter (he/him) : Thanks everybody 😀
19:54:36 De AntispeSix Méduse : Thank you !