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    Ep 20 Posthumanism - Two Different Worlds

    Ep 20 Posthumanism - Two Different Worlds

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

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    Ep 20 Posthumanism - Two Different Worlds

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

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    Length:
    19 minutes
    Released:
    Dec 30, 2021
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    Apocalyptic fears and new utopian aspirations before the backdrop of digitalization, globalization, and urbanization. How environmentalism and transhumanism deliver opposed versions of a posthumanist worldview, and how they determine our political and social future.
    Released:
    Dec 30, 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.