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Matti Wilks on human-animal interaction and moral circle expansion

The Sentience Institute Podcast

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The Differences Between Natural and Unnatural Products

People seem to have this sort of fundamental belief that there's something qualitatively different about unnatural and natural things. I don't think the research has a really good grasp on what we mean by natural and why we think these things are good just yet. There was one study that actually showed that when you ask people you say okay here's like a natural vitamin C and a synthetic vitamin C are they like which one do you prefer they don't even though they say they prefer the natural thing. When you push them a little bit further they don't actually believe that they are identical.

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