MurderBot, Non-violent Protest & Microbial Minds - Sci-fi author Joan Slonczewski - Sentientism 238
About this episode
Joan Slonczewski discusses her work in microbiology and science fiction, exploring themes of intelligence and sentience.
Joan Slonczewski is a microbiologist at Kenyon College and a science fiction writer who explores biology and space travel. Their books have twice earned the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel: "A Door into Ocean" and "The Highest Frontier". Their latest novel is " Minds in Transit ". With John W. Foster and Erik Zinser, they coauthor the textbook, Microbiology: An Evolving Science. In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the most important questions: “what’s real?”, “who matters?” and "how can we make a better world?" Sentientism answers those questions with "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube . 00:00 Clips 00:51 Welcome 03:10 Joan's Intro - Catholic Italian/Polish immigrant background "I project that into my thinking about the world... we're all immigrants one way or another" - Molecular microbiology at Kenyon College - Quakerism "quite consistent actually with the experimental…
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