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The Age of Posthumanism

The Technically Human Podcast

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Is CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing a Collaboration Between Humans and Non-Humans?

The CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technique is essentially a collaboration between humans and the cognitive powers of bacteria. It's of enormous importance, because for the first time in human history, it gives humans the power to direct not only our own evolution, but the evolution of non-human species as well. But we wouldn't have that power without what I call our cognitive collaborators bacteria.

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