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ratings:
Length:
15 minutes
Released:
Aug 26, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

An introduction to what the longevity industry is promising to solve for us: the problems of aging and death. Existentialist human condition, cell biology, evolutionary theories of aging, mythological quest for immortality.
Released:
Aug 26, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (22)

The Life Extension Podcast discusses current efforts to significantly extend human live spans beyond normal medical progress. Science & technology, philosophy, politics, and business are together weaving a new posthuman mythology about our individual and social existence. Episodes present cutting-edge biomedical research, the status of various longevity therapies, and progress in replacing, enhancing, and possibly overcoming human biology with artificial intelligence. We are looking at underlying questions of aging and death, the way how science-based promises are often indistinguishable from magical practices, what it means to be human in this new technoscientific culture, and in what kind of society we are preparing to live in the future.