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Matti Wilks on human-animal interaction and moral circle expansion

The Sentience Institute Podcast

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How to Change Your Moral Circle as You Get Older

I haven't seen any age based analysis of the moral circle and I think it's something that absolutely needs to be done but my sense is once you add a certain age and I don't know what that age is yet it's quite difficult to change your values. A colleague of mine my own PhD supervisor James Kirby has just released a paper showing that mindful compassion training was able to expand the moral circle so people were more likely to grant moral concern to a whole range of different beings in that moral circle.

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