Transhumanism tends to see a kind of disembodied mind as being the future when we've merged with some sort of non-biological technology, or we've become so intertwined with it. I have found myself becoming more and more aware of how much is lost in that vision of what it is to be a human being. It's to be embodied, mortal, subject to all kinds of limitations, but also connected to other people that are connected to our particular time and place. And I feel a great sense of loss if those things are imagined as having been somehow jettisoned as no longer important.
This week on the Penguin Podcast, Isy Suttie is joined by award-winning author and professor, Sarah Bakewell.
Sarah joins us to discuss her latest work of nonfiction, Humanly Possible: seven hundred years of humanist freethinking, inquiry, and hope
Isy and Sarah also discuss Humanism and religion, finding beauty in the complexity of the world, a brief history of human dissection, and the writing of Michel de Montaigne.
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