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E147 | Should we live forever? | Patricia MacCormack, Anders Sandberg, Janne Teller
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:42:56
Publish Date: 2019-04-02 07:19:01
Description: From gene therapy and fad diets to cryonically frozen corpses, many still hope to find a way to live forever. Some scientists are starting to think death might be reversible. But Heidegger famously thought life's transience gave it meaning. Does our fear of death prevent us from living fully? Can we enhance experience by embracing its end? Or could science one day banish death's shadow?Philosopher and author of 'Post-Human Ethics' Patricia MacCormack, Oxford transhumanist Anders Sandberg and author and novelist Janne Teller imagine a life without end. In association with the New College of the Humanities. bit.ly/2FdPgLD
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