Should We Live Forever? | Patricia MacCormack, Anders Sandberg, Janne Teller

Philosophy For Our Times

English - April 02, 2019 12:19 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MB - ★★★★ - 260 ratings
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From gene therapy and fad diets to cryonically frozen corpses, many still hope to find a way to live forever. But Heidegger famously thought life's transience gave it meaning. So should science one day banish death's shadow? In this episode of Philosophy for our Times, Philosopher and author of 'Post-Human Ethics' Patricia MacCormack, Oxford transhumanist Anders Sandberg and author and novelist Janne Teller imagine a life without end.

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