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

Jan 13 2022 4

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

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.

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Ep 22 Current Status of Senolytics

Jan 13 2022 15 mins

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.

Ep 21 Calorie Restriction

Jan 05 2022 14 mins

About a method of life extension which really works. Benefits, challenges, and the supporting science. The medicalization of a cultural problem.

Ep 20 Posthumanism - Two Different Worlds

Dec 30 2021 18 mins

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.

Ep 19 Young Blood

Dec 22 2021 15 mins

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.

Ep 18 Are We Living In A Simulation?

Dec 16 2021 10 mins

A debate about the nature of reality. The Matrix. Significance of the simulation hypothesis for transhumanism.

Ep 17 Current Status of Rapamycin

Dec 09 2021 12 mins

About the most promising drug against aging. Also about regulatory constraints and how they are being bypassed.

Ep 16 Brain-Computer Interface - part 2

Dec 02 2021 11 mins

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.

Ep 15 Brain-Computer Interface - part 1

Nov 25 2021 12 mins

How BCI technology will change our life in the near future. Applications, the underlying science, and technical processes.

Ep 14 Cryonics - part 2

Nov 17 2021 9 mins

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.

Ep 13 Cryonics - part 1

Nov 10 2021 11 mins

An introduction to the science and technological practice of cryonics. Futurist cryonics, mainstream cryopreservation, and an example of shifting ethical judgements.