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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.
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Thursday Jan 13, 2022
Thursday Jan 13, 2022
Senolytic drugs are hoped to slow down and reverse age-related diseases by killing senescent cells. Zombie cells and their creepy behavior. Businesses and scientists are aiming to create life extension pills within a few years.
Thursday Jan 06, 2022
Thursday Jan 06, 2022
About a method of life extension which really works. Benefits, challenges, and the supporting science. The medicalization of a cultural problem.
Thursday Dec 30, 2021
Thursday Dec 30, 2021
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.
Thursday Dec 23, 2021
Thursday Dec 23, 2021
Mythologies, symbolism, and gruesome practices involving young blood for rejuvenation. Surprisingly the practice works, but seems ethically unacceptable. The hunt for anti-aging therapies based on blood components.
Thursday Dec 16, 2021
Thursday Dec 16, 2021
A debate about the nature of reality. The Matrix. Significance of the simulation hypothesis for transhumanism.
Thursday Dec 09, 2021
Thursday Dec 09, 2021
About the most promising drug against aging. Also about regulatory constraints and how they are being bypassed.
Thursday Dec 02, 2021
Thursday Dec 02, 2021
The business drivers of BCI technology. How mind control will enter consumer electronics. A discussion of personal identity and ethical concerns, and how we will need to redefine what means to be human.
Thursday Nov 25, 2021
Thursday Nov 25, 2021
How BCI technology will change our life in the near future. Applications, the underlying science, and technical processes.
Thursday Nov 18, 2021
Thursday Nov 18, 2021
The different meanings of cryonics as cultural practice: as post-humanist death ritual and expression of faith, as speculative investment and as a business proposition to consumers.
Thursday Nov 11, 2021
Thursday Nov 11, 2021
An introduction to the science and technological practice of cryonics. Futurist cryonics, mainstream cryopreservation, and an example of shifting ethical judgements.