The Life Extension Podcast - Technology & Magic, Society & Business Podcast

The Life Extension Podcast - Technology & Magic, Society & Business

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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.
Ep 22 Current Status of Senolytics
Senolytic drugs are hoped to slow down and reverse age-related diseases by killing senescent cells. Zombie cells and their creepy behavior. Businesses and scientists are aiming to create life extension pills within a few years.
Jan 13, 2022
15 min
Ep 21 Calorie Restriction
About a method of life extension which really works. Benefits, challenges, and the supporting science. The medicalization of a cultural problem.
Jan 6, 2022
14 min
Ep 20 Posthumanism - Two Different Worlds
Apocalyptic fears and new utopian aspirations before the backdrop of digitalization, globalization, and urbanization. How environmentalism and transhumanism deliver opposed versions of a posthumanist worldview, and how they determine our political and social future.
Dec 30, 2021
18 min
Ep 19 Young Blood
Mythologies, symbolism, and gruesome practices involving young blood for rejuvenation. Surprisingly the practice works, but seems ethically unacceptable. The hunt for anti-aging therapies based on blood components.
Dec 23, 2021
15 min
Ep 18 Are We Living In A Simulation?
A debate about the nature of reality. The Matrix. Significance of the simulation hypothesis for transhumanism.
Dec 16, 2021
10 min
Ep 17 Current Status of Rapamycin
About the most promising drug against aging. Also about regulatory constraints and how they are being bypassed.
Dec 9, 2021
12 min
Ep 16 Brain-Computer Interface - part 2
The business drivers of BCI technology. How mind control will enter consumer electronics. A discussion of personal identity and ethical concerns, and how we will need to redefine what means to be human.
Dec 2, 2021
11 min
Ep 15 Brain-Computer Interface - part 1
How BCI technology will change our life in the near future. Applications, the underlying science, and technical processes.
Nov 25, 2021
12 min
Ep 14 Cryonics - part 2
The different meanings of cryonics as cultural practice: as post-humanist death ritual and expression of faith, as speculative investment and as a business proposition to consumers.
Nov 18, 2021
9 min
Ep 13 Cryonics - part 1
An introduction to the science and technological practice of cryonics. Futurist cryonics, mainstream cryopreservation, and an example of shifting ethical judgements.
Nov 11, 2021
11 min
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