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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.
Episodes
Thursday Nov 04, 2021
Thursday Nov 04, 2021
About epigenetic clocks and biomarkers of aging, their applications, and how they work. My personal experience.
Thursday Oct 28, 2021
Thursday Oct 28, 2021
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.
Thursday Oct 21, 2021
Thursday Oct 21, 2021
A discussion of consciousness in philosophical and scientific thought and its relevance to how we are going to live with A.I., if humans could become machines, and machines become human. Also, about the irrelevance of that question once robots start to participate in social life.
Thursday Oct 14, 2021
Thursday Oct 14, 2021
The promise of gene therapy and regenerative medicine. What is the status? The key technologies. Hopes and magic, hard choices to make. The business of regenerative medicine.
Thursday Oct 07, 2021
Thursday Oct 07, 2021
Cyborg as a real figure (we are all cyborgs already). Cyborgs as symbolic projection of two radical worldviews shaping our future. Utopian visions, political relevance.
Thursday Sep 30, 2021
Thursday Sep 30, 2021
The science behind NAD+, NMN, and NR and the status of research and clinical trials. A comparison of claims by scientists with claims by supplement suppliers. Should you take it?
Thursday Sep 23, 2021
Thursday Sep 23, 2021
An introduction to mind-uploading at the crossroad between A.I. and biology. Neuroscience is merging with computer science. The motivation and the promoters. The mind-body problem in philosophy, personal identity, and the echo of a religious narrative.
Thursday Sep 16, 2021
Thursday Sep 16, 2021
An introduction to cell biology, types und function of stem cells, potential and status of stem cell treatments in regenerative medicine, grey markets, opportunities and risk.
Thursday Sep 09, 2021
Thursday Sep 09, 2021
The Christian-Judeo master-narrative reformulated as a modernized quasi-religion without the spiritual mood, infused with humanism, technoscience, and Gnosticism. Science and magic. Engineering god and paradise.
Friday Sep 03, 2021
Friday Sep 03, 2021
A movement of radical technologists, scientists, philosophers, politicians, and business people is renegotiating the human condition. Information technology is taking over biology. Implications for consciousness, personal identities, cultures. Origin of beliefs.