Professor Steve Fuller discusses transhumanism, how scientists should approach risk, and what it means to be human in the 21st Century.

Steve is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, his most recent work has been concerned with the future of humanity, or 'Humanity 2.0'. During the interview he discussed the ideas of transhumanism and posthumanism and explained the potential directions in which humanity may move. He also argued that we should embrace technological and medical advances, as well as the risks that we may face in their development.

ON THIS EPISODE

• Humanity 2.0: What it Means to be Human Past, Present and Future
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Transhumanism
• Posthumanism
• Book of Genesis
• Jesus
• The President's Council on Bioethics (PCBE)
• Leon Kass
• Wisdom of repugnance
• Max Planck
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Aubrey de Grey
• Max More
• Morphological Freedom
• Mind Uploading
• Christology
• William James
• The Moral Equivalent of War
• Francis Fukuyama
• Nuremberg trials
• Nick Bostrom
• Seasteading
• Peter Thiel
• Precautionary principle
• Proactionary principle
• Henry Ford
• The Rockefeller Foundation
• James Watson
• Existential risk

CREDITS

Produced by FUTURES Podcast

Recorded, Mixed & Edited by Luke Robert Mason

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