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    Ep 11 The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker

    Ep 11 The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker

    FromThe Life Extension Podcast - Technology & Magic, Society & Business

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    Ep 11 The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker

    FromThe Life Extension Podcast - Technology & Magic, Society & Business

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    Length:
    15 minutes
    Released:
    Oct 28, 2021
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    An existentialist perspective of death. About society creating mythologies to accommodate personal hero-systems to suppress our fear of death. A view from anthropology and psychoanalysis.
    Released:
    Oct 28, 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.