Feb 24, 2018
Bioquark Inc. — The Mind’s Eye Podcast — Ira Pastor
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, bioengineering, biological, biotech/medical, cryonics, DNA, futurism, genetics, health, life extension
Tags: anti-aging, bioquark, biotech, health, healthspan, immortality, lifespan, reanima, regeneration, wellness
Waiting on research advances is the rationale behind cryopreservation, and more broadly, a worldview known as transhumanism. A person killed by cancer or heart disease could reasonably be revived in a future when such ailments no longer exist. “They believe in the advance of technology,” says Giuseppe Nucci, an Italian photographer who visited with transhumanists and toured the facilities of Russia-based cryonics company KrioRus. “They hope that someone will wake them up.”
This hope, that the future will vanquish the ills of the present, is as old as the first civilisations that realized that with each passing year life got a little better. The Russian philosopher Nikolai Fedorovich Fedorov helped create an early 20th-century movement known as cosmism that was rooted in the idea that, given enough time, humans could defeat evil and death. If the human life span was too short, then the simple solution was to extend it, even after death, and suspend its decomposition until the world caught up.
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Part #1 of an awesome show with Steve and Jason on Grognostics merging together discussions on biotech, craft beer, human potential, as well as a comedic journey into the world of 2039
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/grognostics/e/53077743?autoplay=true