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234 - Dr. Paula Boddington - Digital ID and Control

The Symbolic World

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Technology and the Fear of Death

Technology, primally, lia, mythologically is to put off death. That's what technology is. So as technical society increases, then it's not surprising also, that fear of death increases as well. And there's nothing wrong with that. But we can understand that ifwe divorce technology from its basic, primal reality, which is a desire to stave off death through means that are taken from death to a certain extent. Ah, then we don't understand it. We will struggle to understand why, and be surprised that people are, tha, transhumanists, understand technology as a way for immortal life.

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