{"id":70969,"date":"2019-11-27T06:10:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T11:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=70969"},"modified":"2019-11-24T23:58:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T04:58:42","slug":"to-be-or-not-to-be-bionic-on-immortality-and-superhumanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=70969","title":{"rendered":"To Be or Not to Be Bionic: On Immortality and Superhumanism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe can rebuild him. We have the technology,\u201d began the opening sequence of the hugely popular 70\u2019s TV show, \u201cThe Six Million Dollar Man.\u201d Forty-five years later, how close are we, in reality, to that sci-fi fantasy? More thornily, now that artificial intelligence may soon pass human intelligence, and the merging of human with the machine is potentially on the table, what will it then mean to \u201cbe human\u201d? Join us for an important discussion with scientists, technologists and ethicists about the path toward super humanism and the quest for immortality.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vQ2klZggh90\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>PARTICIPANTS: Jessica Brillhart, S. 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We have the technology,\u201d began the opening sequence of the hugely popular 70\u2019s TV show, \u201cThe Six Million Dollar Man.\u201d Forty-five years later, how close are we, in reality, to that sci-fi fantasy? More thornily, now that artificial intelligence may soon pass human intelligence, and the merging of human with the machine is potentially on the table, what will it then mean to \u201cbe human\u201d? Join us for an important discussion with scientists, technologists and ethicists about the path toward super humanism and the quest for immortality. PARTICIPANTS: Jessica Brillhart, S. 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