The future of moral philosophy cannot be a single ladder with humans at the top. It has to be a plural architecture of moral standing: different beings matter for different reasons, and lacking one basis for moral status does not prove a being lacks any basis at all.
#AIEthics #HumanExceptionalism
#AIEthics #HumanExceptionalism
Human Exceptionalism and AI: The Alien Intelligence Already Among Us
We imagined alien intelligence arriving from the stars. Instead, it appeared in a chat window. AI unsettles us because it resembles us in the capacities we once treated as proof of human superiority —...
www.real-morality.com
May 10, 2026 at 4:25 PM
The future of moral philosophy cannot be a single ladder with humans at the top. It has to be a plural architecture of moral standing: different beings matter for different reasons, and lacking one basis for moral status does not prove a being lacks any basis at all.
#AIEthics #HumanExceptionalism
#AIEthics #HumanExceptionalism
The contrarian views on #Artemis by a space child who was 16 in 1969 -
"This is the last convulsion of an extractivist civilisation that has never accepted limits, now preparing its own evacuation while the planet burns."
#Limits #HumanExceptionalism
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"This is the last convulsion of an extractivist civilisation that has never accepted limits, now preparing its own evacuation while the planet burns."
#Limits #HumanExceptionalism
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The Artemis retrotopia: when 1969 becomes the future
"Here am I floating 'round my tin can, far above the moon. Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do.
www.linkedin.com
April 2, 2026 at 12:29 PM
The contrarian views on #Artemis by a space child who was 16 in 1969 -
"This is the last convulsion of an extractivist civilisation that has never accepted limits, now preparing its own evacuation while the planet burns."
#Limits #HumanExceptionalism
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"This is the last convulsion of an extractivist civilisation that has never accepted limits, now preparing its own evacuation while the planet burns."
#Limits #HumanExceptionalism
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The myth of #humanexceptionalism casts humans as separate from and superior to the rest of life. Christine Webb shows how science and culture reinforce this worldview, and why replacing it is essential to life’s future on Earth. www.populationbalance.org/podcast/chri...
February 25, 2026 at 10:02 PM
The myth of #humanexceptionalism casts humans as separate from and superior to the rest of life. Christine Webb shows how science and culture reinforce this worldview, and why replacing it is essential to life’s future on Earth. www.populationbalance.org/podcast/chri...
Guten Morgen Welt ☁️
Ich lese gerade "The Arrogant Ape" von C. Webb. Etwas langgezogen, aber sehr interessant, kann ich empfehlen.
Hier ein Interview zum Buch mit der Autorin: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anim...
#Leseempfehlung #Buch #Natur #Ökologie #HumanExceptionalism
Ich lese gerade "The Arrogant Ape" von C. Webb. Etwas langgezogen, aber sehr interessant, kann ich empfehlen.
Hier ein Interview zum Buch mit der Autorin: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anim...
#Leseempfehlung #Buch #Natur #Ökologie #HumanExceptionalism
"The Arrogant Ape": A Strong Case Against Human Superiority
Dr. Christine Webb presents a new mindset for de-centering humans and offers a celebration of humility that leads to a new understanding of other species—and ourselves.
www.psychologytoday.com
February 21, 2026 at 8:13 AM
Guten Morgen Welt ☁️
Ich lese gerade "The Arrogant Ape" von C. Webb. Etwas langgezogen, aber sehr interessant, kann ich empfehlen.
Hier ein Interview zum Buch mit der Autorin: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anim...
#Leseempfehlung #Buch #Natur #Ökologie #HumanExceptionalism
Ich lese gerade "The Arrogant Ape" von C. Webb. Etwas langgezogen, aber sehr interessant, kann ich empfehlen.
Hier ein Interview zum Buch mit der Autorin: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anim...
#Leseempfehlung #Buch #Natur #Ökologie #HumanExceptionalism
#HumanExceptionalism and our #EcologicalOvershoot / #EnvironmentalOvershoot
“WE ARE DESTROYING OUR OWN EXISTENCE
CATASTROPHE IN THE MAKING
PROF. WILLIAM E. REES
SCIENCE TALK
Ecological Overshoot I The Greatest Threat to Humanity” PROF. #WILLIAMEREES
youtu.be/sZnnvH7FgBw?...
“WE ARE DESTROYING OUR OWN EXISTENCE
CATASTROPHE IN THE MAKING
PROF. WILLIAM E. REES
SCIENCE TALK
Ecological Overshoot I The Greatest Threat to Humanity” PROF. #WILLIAMEREES
youtu.be/sZnnvH7FgBw?...
January 27, 2026 at 2:04 PM
#HumanExceptionalism and our #EcologicalOvershoot / #EnvironmentalOvershoot
“WE ARE DESTROYING OUR OWN EXISTENCE
CATASTROPHE IN THE MAKING
PROF. WILLIAM E. REES
SCIENCE TALK
Ecological Overshoot I The Greatest Threat to Humanity” PROF. #WILLIAMEREES
youtu.be/sZnnvH7FgBw?...
“WE ARE DESTROYING OUR OWN EXISTENCE
CATASTROPHE IN THE MAKING
PROF. WILLIAM E. REES
SCIENCE TALK
Ecological Overshoot I The Greatest Threat to Humanity” PROF. #WILLIAMEREES
youtu.be/sZnnvH7FgBw?...
#HumanExceptionalism and our #EcologicalOvershoot / #EnvironmentalOvershoot
“WE ARE DESTROYING OUR OWN EXISTENCE
CATASTROPHE IN THE MAKING
PROF. WILLIAM E. REES
SCIENCE TALK
Ecological Overshoot I The Greatest Threat to Humanity” PROF. #WILLIAMEREES
youtu.be/sZnnvH7FgBw?...
“WE ARE DESTROYING OUR OWN EXISTENCE
CATASTROPHE IN THE MAKING
PROF. WILLIAM E. REES
SCIENCE TALK
Ecological Overshoot I The Greatest Threat to Humanity” PROF. #WILLIAMEREES
youtu.be/sZnnvH7FgBw?...
Ecological Overshoot I The Greatest Threat to Humanity I Earth's Boundaries and Climate Change I AI
YouTube video by Science Talk
youtu.be
January 27, 2026 at 2:00 PM
#HumanExceptionalism and our #EcologicalOvershoot / #EnvironmentalOvershoot
“WE ARE DESTROYING OUR OWN EXISTENCE
CATASTROPHE IN THE MAKING
PROF. WILLIAM E. REES
SCIENCE TALK
Ecological Overshoot I The Greatest Threat to Humanity” PROF. #WILLIAMEREES
youtu.be/sZnnvH7FgBw?...
“WE ARE DESTROYING OUR OWN EXISTENCE
CATASTROPHE IN THE MAKING
PROF. WILLIAM E. REES
SCIENCE TALK
Ecological Overshoot I The Greatest Threat to Humanity” PROF. #WILLIAMEREES
youtu.be/sZnnvH7FgBw?...
#ScienceTalk #overshoot #economy #ecology #HumanExceptionalism #ParasiticGrowths #degrowth
Dr. #MuhammadIttefaq interviews Dr. #WilliamRees
"You cannot continue to deplete essential resources.
At some point it comes back to bite you."
Dr. #MuhammadIttefaq interviews Dr. #WilliamRees
"You cannot continue to deplete essential resources.
At some point it comes back to bite you."
What if the real crisis is overshoot, human exceptionalism, and a society that refuses to see itself as part of nature? In this conversation, we confront uncomfortable questions about population, technology, degrowth, and the future of humanity.
🎥 Watch the full discussion: youtu.be/sZnnvH7FgBw?...
🎥 Watch the full discussion: youtu.be/sZnnvH7FgBw?...
Ecological Overshoot I The Greatest Threat to Humanity I Earth's Boundaries and Climate Change I AI
YouTube video by Science Talk
youtu.be
January 20, 2026 at 8:26 PM
#ScienceTalk #overshoot #economy #ecology #HumanExceptionalism #ParasiticGrowths #degrowth
Dr. #MuhammadIttefaq interviews Dr. #WilliamRees
"You cannot continue to deplete essential resources.
At some point it comes back to bite you."
Dr. #MuhammadIttefaq interviews Dr. #WilliamRees
"You cannot continue to deplete essential resources.
At some point it comes back to bite you."
Looking forward to 2026, I wrote about the war we refuse to see and the enemy we hide
#WarAndPeace #HumanExceptionalism #BoundedPolitics #Scapegoat
@anthonyburke.bsky.social @flusterbird.bsky.social
www.linkedin.com/pulse/2026-t...
#WarAndPeace #HumanExceptionalism #BoundedPolitics #Scapegoat
@anthonyburke.bsky.social @flusterbird.bsky.social
www.linkedin.com/pulse/2026-t...
2026: Time to confront the enemy we hide
"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart." Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote these words ...
www.linkedin.com
December 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Looking forward to 2026, I wrote about the war we refuse to see and the enemy we hide
#WarAndPeace #HumanExceptionalism #BoundedPolitics #Scapegoat
@anthonyburke.bsky.social @flusterbird.bsky.social
www.linkedin.com/pulse/2026-t...
#WarAndPeace #HumanExceptionalism #BoundedPolitics #Scapegoat
@anthonyburke.bsky.social @flusterbird.bsky.social
www.linkedin.com/pulse/2026-t...
Centuries of degradation, a few decades of making amends, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hist... #adirondacks #albany #catskills #cleanwateract #degradation #ge #generalelectric #henryhudson #hudsonriver #humanexceptionalism #laketearoftheclouds #newyorkcity #pcbs #steamboats #superfundsite
The History of America Flows Through the Hudson River, and the Country’s Aquatic Superhighway Is on the Rebound
The bucolic river is famous for reversing its current a few times each day. Now, an ongoing cleanup effort is reversing decades of industrial contamination
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Centuries of degradation, a few decades of making amends, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hist... #adirondacks #albany #catskills #cleanwateract #degradation #ge #generalelectric #henryhudson #hudsonriver #humanexceptionalism #laketearoftheclouds #newyorkcity #pcbs #steamboats #superfundsite
We'd "oblige" better if we didn't think of ourselves as nobility...
#humanexceptionalism
#humansupremacy
#speciesism
#humanexceptionalism
#humansupremacy
#speciesism
November 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
We'd "oblige" better if we didn't think of ourselves as nobility...
#humanexceptionalism
#humansupremacy
#speciesism
#humanexceptionalism
#humansupremacy
#speciesism
Is there a future for #HumanExceptionalism in the growing field of #ForesightAI or is everyone’s job on the line?
Listen anywhere you get your #podcasts
@pennstateuniv.bsky.social #NicholasRowland
#Scenarios4Tmw #ScenarioFutures #FARvisions #futures #forecasting #AI #WomenInSTEM #SciComm 💙👩🏽🔬🧪
Listen anywhere you get your #podcasts
@pennstateuniv.bsky.social #NicholasRowland
#Scenarios4Tmw #ScenarioFutures #FARvisions #futures #forecasting #AI #WomenInSTEM #SciComm 💙👩🏽🔬🧪
October 31, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Is there a future for #HumanExceptionalism in the growing field of #ForesightAI or is everyone’s job on the line?
Listen anywhere you get your #podcasts
@pennstateuniv.bsky.social #NicholasRowland
#Scenarios4Tmw #ScenarioFutures #FARvisions #futures #forecasting #AI #WomenInSTEM #SciComm 💙👩🏽🔬🧪
Listen anywhere you get your #podcasts
@pennstateuniv.bsky.social #NicholasRowland
#Scenarios4Tmw #ScenarioFutures #FARvisions #futures #forecasting #AI #WomenInSTEM #SciComm 💙👩🏽🔬🧪
"There is so much to gain by unlearning the myth of human exceptionalism..."
Listen with an open mind.
#NonHumanRights
#HumanExceptionalism
#AnimalRights
#SentientBeings
#BetterWorlds
Listen with an open mind.
#NonHumanRights
#HumanExceptionalism
#AnimalRights
#SentientBeings
#BetterWorlds
the pressure to see it as a necessary step in her career, and the realisation that meaningful research could be done in the wild without such deprivation.
Listen to the full conversation on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your preferred platform.
Listen to the full conversation on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your preferred platform.
Lives Well Lived
Philosophy Podcast · Lives Well Lived is hosted by Peter Singer & Kasia de Lazari Radek. Episodes consist of interviews with remarkable guests who have lived well, both in the sense of living an…
bit.ly
October 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
"There is so much to gain by unlearning the myth of human exceptionalism..."
Listen with an open mind.
#NonHumanRights
#HumanExceptionalism
#AnimalRights
#SentientBeings
#BetterWorlds
Listen with an open mind.
#NonHumanRights
#HumanExceptionalism
#AnimalRights
#SentientBeings
#BetterWorlds
Christine Webb, biologist, said human exceptionalism drives extinctions and rising seas at a Harvard Science Book Talk with over 100 attendees. She is now an NYU assistant professor. https://getnews.me/human-exceptionalism-drives-ecological-crisis-biologist-says/ #humanexceptionalism #ecology
October 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Christine Webb, biologist, said human exceptionalism drives extinctions and rising seas at a Harvard Science Book Talk with over 100 attendees. She is now an NYU assistant professor. https://getnews.me/human-exceptionalism-drives-ecological-crisis-biologist-says/ #humanexceptionalism #ecology
Human exceptionalism seems to expand beyond Thesists.
Creativity is recombination. Humans & AI both do it. Only AI admits it.
philosophics.blog/2025/08/11/t...
#Creativity #AI #Philosophy #HumanExceptionalism #Myth #CausaSui #NoBears #GenAI #Cognition #Remix #Podcast
Creativity is recombination. Humans & AI both do it. Only AI admits it.
philosophics.blog/2025/08/11/t...
#Creativity #AI #Philosophy #HumanExceptionalism #Myth #CausaSui #NoBears #GenAI #Cognition #Remix #Podcast
The Myth of Causa Sui Creativity
(or: Why Neither Humans nor AI Create from Nothing) In the endless squabble over whether AI can be “creative” or “intelligent,” we always end up back at the same semantic swamp. At the risk of poki…
philosophics.blog
August 12, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Human exceptionalism seems to expand beyond Thesists.
Creativity is recombination. Humans & AI both do it. Only AI admits it.
philosophics.blog/2025/08/11/t...
#Creativity #AI #Philosophy #HumanExceptionalism #Myth #CausaSui #NoBears #GenAI #Cognition #Remix #Podcast
Creativity is recombination. Humans & AI both do it. Only AI admits it.
philosophics.blog/2025/08/11/t...
#Creativity #AI #Philosophy #HumanExceptionalism #Myth #CausaSui #NoBears #GenAI #Cognition #Remix #Podcast
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Interesting conversation about #baboons & #HumanExceptionalism - the reason we now inhabit a dying & denuded planet.
#goVegan #vegan #ecologicalCollapse #sixthExtinction #rewild #compassion #evolve #population #sentientism
Interesting conversation about #baboons & #HumanExceptionalism - the reason we now inhabit a dying & denuded planet.
#goVegan #vegan #ecologicalCollapse #sixthExtinction #rewild #compassion #evolve #population #sentientism
Dr. Shirley Strum: The Echoes of Our Origins
Podcast Episode · Species Unite · 07/30/2025 · 39m
podcasts.apple.com
July 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Interesting conversation about #baboons & #HumanExceptionalism - the reason we now inhabit a dying & denuded planet.
#goVegan #vegan #ecologicalCollapse #sixthExtinction #rewild #compassion #evolve #population #sentientism
Interesting conversation about #baboons & #HumanExceptionalism - the reason we now inhabit a dying & denuded planet.
#goVegan #vegan #ecologicalCollapse #sixthExtinction #rewild #compassion #evolve #population #sentientism
A different perspective on the evolutionary path of Homo sapiens.
books.apple.com/us/audiobook...
#evolution #homosapiens #hominids #humanexceptionalism #science #biology
books.apple.com/us/audiobook...
#evolution #homosapiens #hominids #humanexceptionalism #science #biology
The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution (Unabridged)
Science & Nature · 2025
books.apple.com
July 5, 2025 at 11:33 PM
A different perspective on the evolutionary path of Homo sapiens.
books.apple.com/us/audiobook...
#evolution #homosapiens #hominids #humanexceptionalism #science #biology
books.apple.com/us/audiobook...
#evolution #homosapiens #hominids #humanexceptionalism #science #biology
Humans are an animal that does not think it is a animal and this separation has led us into many of today’s problems.
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#homosapiens #humanexceptionalism #nature #mammal #evolution #balance
#biology #science #biodiversity #culture
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#homosapiens #humanexceptionalism #nature #mammal #evolution #balance
#biology #science #biodiversity #culture
How to be Animal: A New History of What It Means to Be Human (Unabridged)
Nonfiction · 2021
books.apple.com
June 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Humans are an animal that does not think it is a animal and this separation has led us into many of today’s problems.
books.apple.com/us/audiobook...
#homosapiens #humanexceptionalism #nature #mammal #evolution #balance
#biology #science #biodiversity #culture
books.apple.com/us/audiobook...
#homosapiens #humanexceptionalism #nature #mammal #evolution #balance
#biology #science #biodiversity #culture
Rachael Donald interviews Primatologist Christine Webb on the misconception of Human Exceptionalism and how it is a cause of many of our problems.
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#humanexceptionalism #humancentrism #nature #biology #primatology #bias #ecocide #collapse #overshoot #ideology
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#humanexceptionalism #humancentrism #nature #biology #primatology #bias #ecocide #collapse #overshoot #ideology
Human Exceptionalism | Christine Webb
Podcast Episode · Planet: Critical · 06/26/2025 · 1h
podcasts.apple.com
June 30, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Rachael Donald interviews Primatologist Christine Webb on the misconception of Human Exceptionalism and how it is a cause of many of our problems.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
#humanexceptionalism #humancentrism #nature #biology #primatology #bias #ecocide #collapse #overshoot #ideology
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
#humanexceptionalism #humancentrism #nature #biology #primatology #bias #ecocide #collapse #overshoot #ideology
#humanexceptionalism #life #ideology
#ecocide #humancentrism #forest #tree #nature #ignorance #biology #environment #perspective #hiking
#ecocide #humancentrism #forest #tree #nature #ignorance #biology #environment #perspective #hiking
June 25, 2025 at 12:38 PM
“Any claim of #animal #consciousness and #intelligence was met with disbelief and even resistance, highlighting this ingrained #anthropocentric bias. Similarly, the concept of #extraterrestrial #life has long challenged #humanexceptionalism” daily.jstor.org/far-out-why-...
Far Out: Why Don't We Believe in UFOs? - JSTOR Daily
Is it scientific impossibility or simply human ego that stops us from entertaining the idea of extraterrestrial visitation?
daily.jstor.org
March 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
“Any claim of #animal #consciousness and #intelligence was met with disbelief and even resistance, highlighting this ingrained #anthropocentric bias. Similarly, the concept of #extraterrestrial #life has long challenged #humanexceptionalism” daily.jstor.org/far-out-why-...