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Comparison. Portrait of beautiful woman with problem and clean skin, aging and youth concept, beauty treatment

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Author
News
Date
April 15, 2024

Categorized
Biology, Technology

Tagged
age, Biotech, COSM, COSM 2023, ethics, Progress, Technology, youth}

Anti-Aging: Is it Possible or a Pipe Dream?

_{A brand-new video on the topic of anti-aging technologies from the 2023 COSM conference} _{News

April 15, 2024

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Biology, Technology}

The Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence is pleased to be able to share the videos from the 2023 COSM conference, now available on YouTube. This annual conference explores the status and the future of our era-defining technologies, from artificial intelligence to electric vehicles to new developments in biotech. Today’s video features a discussion on anti-aging, and whether this is even a possibility. Matt Scholz, CEO of Oisin Biotechnologies, leads a discussion with Vered Caplan, CEO of Orgenesis, and Elena Sergeeva, Neuroscientist at Tufts and Harvard and co-founder of Tiamat Labs, about anti-aging biotechnologies — how genetic reprogramming of cells could negate the effects of aging and even allow a person to stay in perfect health indefinitely, essentially Read More ›

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Author
Russ White
Date
July 7, 2023

Categorized
Technology

Tagged
Atlantic Ocean, Conquering nature via tech, Hubris of man, Modernity, Progress, Progressivism, Russ White, Technology, Technology as magic, Titan, Titanic, Tower of Babel}

The Titan and the Titanic: Bookends of Progressivism

_{Nature, despite all our technological innovations, remains extremely powerful} _{Russ White

July 7, 2023

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Technology}

I read, with great sadness, of the wreck of the Titan. There were, undoubtedly, technical reasons why this submersible, carrying five human souls, broke up, lying now in the same graveyard as the Titanic. We pray that the impacted families might find peace in this moment—and in the coming times when lawsuits are filed, and horrible things are spoken about their loved ones. There is a great lesson to learn from this disaster—not the obvious lessons about the all-to-human failings of individual engineers or managers. The lesson we take from this should be broader. We should learn a lesson about man’s confidence in his own abilities, in our ability to overcome nature, and in a certain kind of progress. The Read More ›

Catch the star. A person is standing next to the Milky Way galaxy pointing on a bright star.

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Author
Peter Biles
Date
June 3, 2023

Categorized
Philosophy

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, Human exceptionalism, J.P. Moreland, Materialism, mind-body dualism, Philosophy, Progress, Reality, science, Technology, theology}

A Return to the Reality of the Soul

_{Materialism has depersonalized the universe, but the evidence for the soul remains} _{Peter Biles

June 3, 2023

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Philosophy}

Contemporary Western culture is disillusioned. Under the mainstream narrative of materialism, moderns struggle to connect their lives with a transcendent meaning beyond the self. In the United States, we enjoy a level of privilege and wealth foreign to the majority of prior generations, and yet we see “deaths of despair,” frightening rates of anxiety and depression, and heightened political tensions. None of this is news to you, I’m guessing. I’ve personally written a variation of that paragraph in other articles a number of times. The question behind our collective disillusionment is, frankly, why? Why do we struggle to make something of our lives? Why do we enjoy technological and scientific progress but lack the moral and cultural means to enjoy Read More ›