10 episodes
Musings on Transhumanism Ash Bayram
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A podcast about the future of humankind and how we try to make it happen with tech and science. Here we go into the nitty-gritty of science, technology, philosophy, and ethics of what the future holds for us.
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Hacking your biology with Dr. Alja Podgornik
A big aspect of transhumanism is changing our biology. But is it even possible without fully understanding it and is there anything we can do today? In this episode, we discuss alternative medicine as a different approach to changing our lives.
For more info on Alja's work, visit:
https://responsibleevolutionproject.com
@_aljapodgornik_ on instagram
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What if the world was deterministic?
Determinism is a view of the world where all events in the universe, including human decisions and actions, are causally inevitable. In this episode, we discuss the deterministic aspects of the world, the science behind them, and how living in determinism would affect society!
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Microdosing, psychedelics and the future of the altered mind - with Josh Leonard
In this episode, we discuss the practices of microdosing and macrodosing with psychedelics. What do they entail? How they affect our understanding of the human? What are the socio-economic problems we might face in the future with psychedelics? These and many more questions, we discuss with our guest, Josh Leonard from Pursuit of Infinity.
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Science vs death: can humanity become immortal?
In this episode, we talk about the infamous problem of death and how scientists are going about solving it. What part of us makes us alive? Can we stay alive forever? What would an immortal society look like?
Sources:
https://www.alcor.org/
Mark O’Connell. (2017). To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death. Granta Books.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/03/13/144721/a-startup-is-pitching-a-mind-uploading-service-that-is-100-percent-fatal/
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dualism/ -
From gender inequality to artificial wombs
Making babies has been a longstanding topic for science, philosophy, and sociology. From society's unreasonable views on women to artificial wombs, in this episode, we look into the future of the "birds and bees" question.
Sources:
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-04940-001
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/health-50056405
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2216818-c-section-babies-have-a-different-microbiome-but-not-for-long/#:~:text=Babies%20born%20by%20caesarean%20section,birth%20mode%20on%20the%20microbiome.
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/the-future-of-human-reproduction-where-will-tomorrows-babies-come-from
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15112
https://www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/fulltext/S1934-5909(16)00018-7
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/662393 -
Society without fear - utopia or distopia?
What would the world look like without fear? Can we get rid of it? What is the science of fear?