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Immortality: Can we upload human consciousness?
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Technology has evolved to a point where humans have overridden natural selection. So what will our species become? Immortal interstellar travelers, perhaps.

Scientists are currently mapping the human brain in an effort to understand the connections that produce consciousness. If we can re-create consciousness, your mind can live on forever. You could even laser-port your consciousness to different planets at the speed of light, download your mind into a local avatar and explore those worlds.

But is this transhumanist vision of the future real or is it a pipedream? And if it is real, is it wise? Join theoretical physicist Michio Kaku, neuroscientist David Eagleman, human performance researcher Steven Kotler, skeptic Michael Shermer, cultural theorist Douglas Rushkoff and futurist Jason Silva.

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TRANSCRIPT:

JASON SILVA: Transhumanism is essentially the philosophical school of thought that says that human beings should use technology to transcend their limitations. That it's perfectly natural for us to use our tools to overcome our boundaries, to extend our minds, to extend our mindware using these technological scaffoldings. The craziness here is that we're finding more and more that our technological systems are mirroring some of the most advanced natural systems in nature. You know, the internet is wired like the neurons in our brain, which is wired like computer models of dark matter in the universe. They all share the same intertwingled filamental structure. What does this tell us? That there is no distinction between the born and the made. All of it is nature, all of it is us. So to be human is to be transhuman.

But the reason we're at a pivotal point in history is because now we've decommissioned natural selection. You know, this notion that we are now the chief agents of evolution, right? We now get to decide who we become. We're talking about software that writes its own hardware, life itself, the new canvas for the artist. Nanotechnology patterning matter, programmable matter. The whole world becomes computable, life itself, programmable, upgradable. What does this say about what it means to be human? It means that what it is to be human is to transform and transcend; we've always done it. We're not the same species we were 100,000 years ago. We're not going to be the same species tomorrow. Craig Venter recently said we've got to understand that we are a software-driven species. Change the software, changed the species. And why shouldn't we?

DAVID EAGLEMAN: All the pieces and parts of your brain, this vastly complicated network of neurons—almost 100 billion neurons, each of which has 10,000 connections to its neighbors. So we're talking a thousand trillion neurons. It's a system of such complexity that it bankrupts our language but, fundamentally, it's only three pounds and we've got it cornered and it's right there and it's a physical system. The computational hypothesis of brain function suggests that the physical wetware isn't the stuff that matters. It's what are the algorithms that are running on top of the wetware? In other words, what is the brain actually doing? What's it implementing, software-wise? Hypothetically, we should be able to take the physical stuff of the brain and reproduce what it's doing. In other words, reproduce its software on other substrates. So we could take your brain and reproduce it out of beer cans and tennis balls and it would still run just fine. And if we said, "Hey, how are you feeling in there?" This beer-can-tennis-ball machine would say, "Oh, I'm feeling fine, it's a little cold," or whatever.

It's also hypothetically a possibility that we could copy your brain and reproduce it in silica, which means on a computer, in zeros and ones, actually run the simulation of your brain.

MICHIO KAKU: The initial steps are once again being made. At Caltech, for example, they've been able to take a mouse brain and look at a certain part of the brain where memories are processed. Memories are processed at the very center of our brain and they've been able to duplicate the functions of that with a chip. So, again, this does not mean that we can encode memories with a chip, but it does mean that we've been able to take the information storage of a mouse brain and have a silicon chip duplicate those functions. And so was mouse consciousness created in the process? I don't know. I don't know...

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As technological advances, demographic change and new business models disrupt labour markets, what are the implications for employment, and what are the best strategies for mitigating job losses from automation?


 Speakers
- Mariana Mazzucato, Professor of Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College London (UCL), United Kingdom
- Andrew McAfee, Co-Director and Co-Founder, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy; Principal Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- Saadia Zahidi, Managing Director, Head of Social and Economic Agendas, World Economic Forum

Yuval Noah Harari talks about how we are being hacked.


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 Yuval Noah Harari is a New York Times bestselling author whose books have sold over 12 million copies and translated into more than 45 languages.

 He’s often referred to as one of the most profound thinkers of our time. And in this episode you will see why…

SHOWNOTES


How we can hack humans and manipulate their desires [3:26]

How algorithms will learn to understand you better than you understand yourself (and why you could be replaced by one) [5:03]

Why corporations will even be able to predict your sexual orientation… [8:50]

The reality of outsourcing the self-discovery process… [12:27]

How algorithms will change the way we make art… [15:49]

Can AI save us from cancer?

 (See how it’s possible, but decide for yourself if it's dangerous)... [18:10]

The battle between privacy and health... [19:29]

How to take control of the story you tell yourself and why you need to stop thinking of your life as a movie… [21:09]



Why we’re heading into the direction of immortality and the future is just a series of massive disruptions [28:44]

Why you need to continuously reinvent yourself if you want to survive to 2035.

[30:01]

The two most important tools you will need to succeed in the world of AI (and they’re not what you think). [32:05]

Why Yuval believes that science fiction is the most important artistic genre… [34:25]


 See what Yuval has to say about the world’s 3 biggest challenges… [37:29]


QUOTES
“We Are Now Hackable Animals”

“When infotech merges with biotech what you get is the ability to create algorithms that understand me better than I understand myself.” [5:20]

“Maybe the most important thing in life is to get to know yourself better.

 But for all of history this was a process of self-exploration which you did from things like meditation, sports, or art, and complementation. But what does it mean when the process of self-exploration is being outsourced to a big data algorithm?

 The philosophical implications are mind-boggling. ” [12:34]

“The story of your life is made of bits and pieces and it only makes sense" [23:50]

Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari discusses his new book '21 Lessons for the 21st Century’, describing the threat of an artificial intelligence arms race and the brainwashing effect of fake news.


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He says the future of humanity is up for grabs with no one country able to single-handedly tackle the technological revolution we find ourselves in the midst of.

Yuval Noah Harari, macro-historian, Professor, best-selling author of "Sapiens" and "Homo Deus," and one of the world's most innovative and exciting thinkers, discusses his newest work, "21 Lessons for the 21st Century.

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Described as a “truly mind-expanding” journey through today’s most
pressing issues, "21 Lessons for the 21st Century" reminds us to maintain our collective focus in the midst of
dizzying and disorienting change.

Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, hosts Yuval Noah Harari for a conversation about his new book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, and about who the future belongs to.

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Is blockchain the technology of the future? George Gilder, author of Life After Google, argues that bitcoin and blockchain technology is revolutionizing the Internet.

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He sits down with Peter Robinson to discuss technology, cloud computing, big data, and the growing role of blockchain in innovating new technologies.

Gilder argues that cloud computing, while it was the hot new technology ten years ago, has reached its limits as the physical limitations of big data storage centers maxes out.

Improvements in parsing big data are incremental at this point, and it’s time for the next big technology to take its place. Gilder points to blockchain as the technology of the future, with its ability to prevent corruption and manipulation of transaction data and the infinite uses it could have in third world countries.



Gilder also discusses the history of technology, artificial intelligence, and the revolutionary bitcoin. He argues that artificial intelligence can never replace human intelligence and creativity and that in principle, it is impossible for machines to take over.


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Jaron Lanier, the Silicone Valley ‘computer philosopher', thinks social media is ruining your life.

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In this interview Jaron Lanier talks about Facebook, YouTube, Google and how the tech and social media giants are using algorithms to record data about their users - and how internet algorithms shape how we see the world and what we’re shown online.

Prof. Yuval Harari is a historian, philosopher and best-selling author of 'Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind' and 'Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow'.
Recorded July, 2018