"his work also covers global catastrophic risk, cognitive biases, cognitive enhancement, collective intelligence, neuroethics and public policy. These are all topics that could be debated for ever" - not if humans die as nature intended, with Earth being hit by a massive asteroid.
El Reg lecture shows the merely human how to live forever
If you could live forever, would you actually want to? That’s a question best considered over a pint which is exactly what we’ll doing at our first Christmas 2015 lecture on 17 November, when we're joined by leading transhumanist Anders Sandberg. Anders will be discussing his work researching both the ethics of living forever …
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Friday 2nd October 2015 14:47 GMT Harry Stottle
The wrong question
why do all those hostile to or ignorant of the terms of the Transhumanist debate always ask the wrong question: "If you could live forever, would you want to?"
Transhumanism isn't about immortality, it's about Omortality (optional mortality) i.e. living for as long as you still think it's a good idea.