Tag / Transhumanism
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Brian Patrick Green – The Ethics of Life Extension
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Brian Patrick Green is the Director of Technology Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Brian’s work on ethics is extensive, covering transhumanism, artificial intelligence, space exploration, corporate ethics, and religion. He has published several articles and resources on ethics and also authored several books including Space Ethics (2021) and Religious Transhumanism and Its Critics (2022).
In this episode, we ask Brian to share his journey into the world of ethics and the issues that face us today with the regulation of rapidly developing technologies like artificial intelligence. We also delve into the ethics of life extension therapies, questions of identity/what it means to be human, and Roman Catholic perspectives on additional life. We may have gone twice as long as the average episode but only for good reason!
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John Davis – Philosophy and Life Extension
Episode 27:
John Davis is a Professor of Philosophy at Cal State Fullerton and is the author of New Methuselahs: The Ethics of Life-Extension. With a book dedicated to answering all the questions about life extension, John Davis is your expert for philosophical and ethical discussion.
We might commonly ask ourselves are all lives equal but John Davis asks a very different question, are all deaths equal? And can life extension make them more or less equal? How will we feel this inequality on a day-to-day basis? We cover this and more including questions of identity, generational connection, and limitations on childbirth.
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David Wood – London Futurists, Transhumanism, and The Future of Aging
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David Wood is chair of London Futurists, author of Vital Foresight, cofounder of Symbian and has over 25 years of experience in the tech industry and as a head of research. His experience alongside his foundation in mathematics and philosophy at Cambridge University has led him to being the futurist he is today.
What is a futurist you might ask? Well in this episode David goes through a plethora of questions including plenty regarding what exactly a futurist is and how it is distinguished from transhumanism. David also describes problems with life extension, societal rejection, developments in technology and its co-occurrence in longevity as a field, humanity+ (Humanity Plus), and plenty more.
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Jose Cordeiro – Superintelligence, Superlongevity, and Superhappiness
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Jose Cordeiro was trained as an engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) but has been widely involved in the energy, education, and robotics fields as well, among several others. Needless to say, Jose is always eager to talk about new emerging technologies and is a huge advocate in the anti-aging space.
In this episode, Jose gives numerous examples of how quickly advances in technology and medicine have arisen and how the rate of change will only be faster in the future. Jose also shares with us why we should be just as excited as he is about the future and how we can all have super intelligence, super longevity, and super happiness.
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Calvin Mercer – Religious Outlooks on Transhumanism and Enhancement
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Calvin Mercer is a religious studies professor who has written numerous books and articles over the last decade on the implications of transhumanism and human enhancement, and how they pertain to religious affairs.
In this episode, we ask Calvin about the way religion will change and respond to developing technologies and how we should evaluate them. We also learn about a field called developmental psychology and discuss its relation to common rites of passage.
We are also happy to share Calvin’s latest book Religion and the Technological Future: An Introduction to Biohacking, Artificial Intelligence, and Transhumanism which was published in 2021 alongside co-author Tracy Trothen.
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Ron Cole Turner – Christianity and Immortality
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In today’s episode, we interviewed Ron Cole Turner, who is an expert in theology education working with Protestant clergy in training. He has been teaching students Presbyterian and other Protestant traditions.
Listen now as we discuss topics about Christianity and its connection to immortality and theological questions.
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Dennis Kowalski – Cryonics Institute
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Dennis Kowalski is the President of Cryonics Institute.
Listen in to learn more about the history, present, and future of cryonics and it’s take on potential immortality.
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