Should You Choose to Live Forever? In conversation with Stephen Cave

Reading Our Times

English - May 07, 2024 04:00 - 37 minutes - 30.5 MB - ★★★★ - 11 ratings
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Once upon a time, it was religions that promised eternal life. Now its science, with the possibility of immortality - whether bionic, cellular, genetic, or virtual - being the subject of big Silicon Valley dollars.

Is this something we want? Who actually want to live forever? And, perhaps more importantly, should we?

In this week's episode, Nick Spencer speaks to Stephen Cave about his book Should You Choose to Live Forever?

Buy a copy of Stephen's book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CMF7YW3M?ref=KC_GS_GB_GB

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Nick Spencer speaks with Director of the Institute of Technology and Humanity and the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Stephen Cave