{"id":2876,"date":"2020-08-21T12:51:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T11:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/?p=2876"},"modified":"2020-08-21T12:53:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T11:53:22","slug":"fragment-on-sentience-and-speciesism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/fragment-on-sentience-and-speciesism\/","title":{"rendered":"Fragment on sentience and speciesism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/sentience_and_speciesism_1a.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2877\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/sentience_and_speciesism_1a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1457\" height=\"923\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/sentience_and_speciesism_1a.png 1457w, https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/sentience_and_speciesism_1a-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/sentience_and_speciesism_1a-768x487.png 768w, https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/sentience_and_speciesism_1a-1024x649.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1457px) 100vw, 1457px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sentience stands in contexts, do you poke into the functionalities of a beings nervous system to analyze the \u201cquality\u201d of their sentience, then you set the standard with human notions of what they treat as neurologically relevant sentience, or do you understand that all interaction between nonhuman animal life and the natural environment is an interaction marked by sentience, by physical interaction on endlessly complex and fragile levels, which would be the kind of sentience\/s you can\u2019t fit into the idea humans normally hold about their own cognition as \u201chigher\u201d \u2013 then you step into the hierarchical conflict zones of \u201chuman\u201d self-definition.<\/p>\n<p>Sentience indicates the intricate connectedness of life. You can\u2019t easily open a door for a human defined \u201cstandard\u201d side of sentience, while closing a door to other facts and phenomenons of sentience and be eco-ethically and antispeciesistically fair.<\/p>\n<p>Establishing a language of \u201cright, dignity and integrity\u201d in terms of nonhuman animals should in my point of view be a venture of highlighting interrelatedness, of a lot of differentialization work amongst social and ethical-ecological fields and of creating new spaces of thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sentience stands in contexts, do you poke into the functionalities of a beings nervous system to analyze the \u201cquality\u201d of their sentience, then you set the standard with human notions of what they treat as neurologically relevant sentience, or do you understand that all interaction between nonhuman animal life and the natural environment is an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[66,65,70],"class_list":["post-2876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antispeciesist-animal-sociology","tag-nonhuman-rights","tag-rights","tag-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2876"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2879,"href":"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions\/2879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}