The future of transhumanism | Anders Sandberg, Slavoj Žižek, Nicky Ashwell, David Pearce and more

Описание к видео The future of transhumanism | Anders Sandberg, Slavoj Žižek, Nicky Ashwell, David Pearce and more

Leading experts discuss the potentials of transhumanism and where the future of humanity lies.

Featuring: Anders Sandberg, Slavoj Žižek, David Pearce, Natasha Vita-More, Yuval Noah Harari, Luke Robert Mason and Nicky Ashwell.

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00:00 Intro
01:10 Anders Sandberg
03:30 Natasha Vita-More
06:40 Yuval Noah Harari
09:00 Nicky Ashwell
12:25 Slavoj Žižek
18:00 Luke Robert Mason
21:50 David Pearce

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Anders Sandberg is James Martin Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University and his research centres on the ethical and social implications of future technologies and human enhancement.

Slavoj Žižek is a globally renowned philosopher and cultural critic. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, visiting professor at New York University and a senior researcher at the University of Ljubljana's Department of Philosophy. He is the author of several books, including The Sublime Object of Ideology, The Parallax View, Living in the End Times and Heaven in Disorder.

Natasha Vita-More is a strategic designer, author, speaker and innovator within the scientific and technological framework of human enhancement and life extension. Natasha is currently the Executive Director of Humanity+, Inc., a non-profit educational organisation. Through her work and research, Natasha addresses what it means to be human in an AI-driven world.

Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli public intellectual, historian and a professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Product Manager for WGSN forecasting and trend service, Nicky Ashwell has been fitted with Britain’s first working bionic hand.

Luke Robert Mason is a media producer and curator of futures. He has interviewed hundreds of the most well-known innovators in the fields of advanced science and emerging technology providing him with a unique perspective on how the future might unfold. As the Host of the FUTURES Podcast he meets the pioneers working to imagine the sorts of developments that might dramatically alter what it means to be human.

David Pearce is co-founder of the World Transhumanist Association, currently rebranded and incorporated as Humanity+, and is a prominent figure within the transhumanism movement. David Pearce maintains a series of websites devoted to transhumanism and what he calls the "hedonistic imperative", which is a moral obligation to work towards the abolition of suffering in all sentient life. His internet manifesto, The Hedonistic Imperative, outlines how pharmacology, genetic engineering, nanotechnology and neurosurgery could converge to eliminate all forms of unpleasant experience from human and non-human life.

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