Date: July 7th, 2006 File Size: 1.91mb (11kbps) Format: Windows Media 10
Overview: Natasha Vita-More joins us to talk about the future of mankind in space, and how emerging trends in the extropian & transhumanist movements may lead to bio-engineered human enhancements that will ultimately change humanity as we begin to venture in the stars. How will we adapt to the harsh & unforgiving environment of life in space, and how will it change us?
Transhumanism is an international intellectual and cultural movement supporting the use of new sciences and technologies to enhance human physical and cognitive abilities and ameliorate what it regards as undesirable and unnecessary aspects of the human condition, such as disease and aging.
Vita-More is the president of the Extropy Institute, the founder of "Transhumanist Arts & Culture" online, and a member of The Association of Professional Futurists. She is well-recognized as a community leader and true pioneer in the Extropian & Transhumanist movements, along with her husband, Dr. Max More.
Comment #1
(Posted by Abe Ibrahim) Rating
In Natasha Vita-More interview, she kept on emphasizing that humans are seeking to transform to adapt to space in a way that would prolong the human life. I agree that human will continue to replace body parts to replace defective ones, and may be to improve functionality to perform better and adapt to space life. But my dilemma here is this; we (humans) are bodies of feeling and senses, and I fear as we continue develop and replacement human parts one will find it difficult to be human as we were intend. One must remember that anything that is man-made never last and cannot fix itself on an on-going base, only human body can repair itself. Also, in the case of longer life, as we learn about time in space, one would know that there is no time in space only relative conditions to matter, and therefore one by default will live longer, and as we have learned here on Earth, animals adapt very well to their environment. Likewise, we will adapt to space, it might/will take a long time, but we will, only those who want it to happen in their life time think of alternatives that might make sense with our current findings in knowledge advancements.
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