3.3.1 Are We Fish?
Channel: Are We Alone?
Date: 2021-10-04

Jochen and Charley joust over whether humans are a kind of fish. Charley thinks we are fish. Jochen thinks the whole topic is a trivial semantic issue. Charley thinks it's a fundamental issue at the core of our ill-conceived human exceptionalism and human-centric morality. Will our "widening circle of empathy" expand to include all vertebrates? invertebrates? the entire biosphere? aliens?