The Christian Transhumanist Podcast

By Micah Redding

Dive deep into the relationship between religion, technology, and the future of the human race—with provocative guests from the leading edges of science and theology.... more

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November 23, 2015Ep 9: Thomas Jay Oord and the Open Future of God
In this episode, Micah Redding & Thomas Jay Oord talk about free will, predestination, and the open-ended future of God - and explore deep questions about miracles, science, and recent blockbuster movies.
Thomas Jay Oord's blog and new book, The Uncontrolling Love of God
What is open theism?
Why open theism sounds different than traditional theology, and the three options: Calvinism, Arminianism, and Openness.
The things that lead people to embrace open theism, including: scripture, theology, philosophy, and science
Scriptures about God changing his mind
Abraham and Moses argue with God, shouldn't you?
Open theism & eschatology
What Jesus doesn't know
Your grandmother is an open theist
What you do really matters
How to find God's wonderful plan for your life
God in an Open Universe
Science and the question of whether time is real
John Polkinghorne
Miracles and the anthropic principle
Exodus: Gods and Kings and some of the controversy about its miracles
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54min
November 16, 2015Ep 8: Liz Parrish, Life Extension & Reversing the Aging Process
In this episode, Micah Redding talks to Liz Parrish, the first human to be given gene therapy to reverse aging. Micah & Liz discuss risk-taking, the potential issues with life extension, and what happens if this treatment becomes available to the world.
The Transhuman Visions conference where Micah and Liz met
Childhood illnesses and how Liz got into this pursuit
How genetic therapy works, how they deliver the treatment (AAV), and her specific treatments for Myostatins and Telomeres
How a lot of specific diseases may simply be symptoms of aging
What happens if something goes horribly, horribly wrong
Risk-taking, and why it's better not knowing how you're going to die
The normal way to die is before the age of 35, with an infectious disease. But we no longer die normally.
85% of individual's lifetime healthcare is now spent on their final diagnosis
Will this be available only for the ultra-wealthy?
Elysium, vampires, and Isaiah 65
What 1960s supercomputers and iPhones tell us about gene therapy
Economies are built on lifespan
Religious people are the original immortalists
How the pursuit of science is similar to a religious drive
Other things BioViva is working on
Liz Parrish's AMA
Other articles 1 2 about Liz Parrish
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50min
November 09, 2015Ep 7: Steve Fuller, Space Arks & the Proactionary Imperative
Micah Redding and Dr. Steve Fuller discuss SPACE ARKS, the meaning of faith, the risk-taking nature of science, and why the future of politics isn't about left and right.
Dr. Steve Fuller's book The Proactionary Imperative, as well as his writings on IEET and twitter
Space arks! (also see this article where I speculated about space Noahs)
Icarus Interstellar - the people who want to build these arks
Why Clive Hamilton says humans will never leave the earth
Moving beyond left and right to Upwing and Downwing.
The internal inconsistency of who makes up the traditional left and right
"Pope Francis...is very interested in saving the poor, but he's not interested in putting them in space."
Whether environmentalism might replace the Cold War as a driver of technological progress
Elysium and Transcendence and their different visions of the future
Why elitist goals need to be communitarian goals
Transhumanist politics, Zoltan Istvan & the coffin bus. Also, Zoltan thinks atheists shouldn't have to stand in airport lines.
Transhumanism in history, as the secularization of Christian ideas
Protestantism, the Enlightenment, and the de-institutionalization of religion...which is now happening in science as well:
The rise of the Quantified Self movement, and the existence of N=1 and DIYBio.
The meaning of faith, and how it relates to science, history, and morphological freedom
Providence & the scientific method
The imposter syndrome of the human race
Humanity as something inherently artificial
What Christian transhumanists have to offer
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1h 7min
November 02, 2015Ep 6: Evil Capitalists!
Micah Redding & Amy Gaskin discuss whether transhumanism is just an apologetic for capitalism, what will drive the economies of the future, and how Christians need to get out and play more...even if it means finding yourself mixed up in a plot to overthrow Hitler.
Reddit AMA on Christian Transhumanism
Bitcoin & Bartering
Matthew 18:2-4 and why Jesus says becoming like a child is the key to the future
The Tree of Life movie, and the contrast of "nature" and "grace"
Imagination & Idealism as the answer to world problems
Trust as the basic of economics (and the corpspeak version of that)
Acts 2 as a high-trust economy
Synthetic trust & capitalism, socialism, feudalism, mercantilism
Why the mafia is better than nothing
Phyllis Tickle, The Great Emergence, and how Christianity reboots itself every 500 years
Every reboot gives us a new basis of authority - and a new basis of trust across generations
Sola Scriptura, the Vatican's hidden files, and Ashley Madison
The effectiveness of confession
A 50-cent microscope for the developing world
The Roman Empire's roads, and why Jesus came when he did
Scaffolding, spiritual gifts, and the Jewish temple system
Religion as a way of increasing Dunbar's Number
The Maze Runner and the changing face of leadership
Why you can't practice real leadership without egalitarianism
CS Lewis on survival of the fittest
Saints, asceticism, and the brilliance of living outside the normal world
Hebrews 11 and the hall of faith
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1h 50min
October 26, 2015Ep 5: James Hughes, Religious Transhumanism & the Longevity Dividend
Micah Redding & James Hughes explore cyber-Buddhism, religious transhumanism, and the longevity dividend, covering topics like Universal Basic Income, the Christian theology of personal identity, and the importance of a powerful vision for the future.
Projects from Dr Hughes: Citizen Cyborg, Cyborg Buddha and the IEET
The experience of being an unusual transhumanist
Pentecostalism and altered states of consciousness
The longevity dividend
Technological unemployment & Universal Basic Income
The Christian theology of personal identity - and how it connects to transhumanism and Buddhism
Why it's better to read a book than to do meth
Ted Peters & the soul, or...Substance Dualism, and why robots might go to heaven
Jesus, the imago dei, and the ultimate limits of human transformation
The "rapture of the nerds", Christian millennialism, and the good apocalypse
Nick Bostrom's contribution to theology
"Smug atheists should read more science fiction" - Charlie Jane Anders
What religious transhumanists can do for the world
"Without a vision, the people perish" - Proverbs 29:18
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1h 15min
August 17, 2015Ep 4: Life Extension
In this episode, Micah Redding and Amy Gaskin talk about radical life extension.
Why this man hopes to die at 75
Aubrey De Grey
Calico Labs
Million mile cars and Car Longevity
Did God limit human lifespan to 120 years?
Isaiah's vision of a future filled with multi-centenarians
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1h 44min
August 10, 2015Ep 3: Practical Steps
In this episode, Micah Redding and Amy Gaskin start talking about practicality, and then end up discussing Joseph Campbell, Harry Potter, transcendence, and speculative theology. Don't worry, it's all connected.
Is death evil?
Do we have a deathist culture?
Death and all his friends
The mission of God is to undo death and to replace it with life
The connection between sin, death, and fear (Hebrews 2:14-15)
Walter Wink, Rene Girard, and how death creates human evil
Cautionary tales and apocalyptic thrillers
Harry Potter vs Voldemort
Joseph Campbell & Darth Vader
Why is it always a ragtag band of misfits?
Divergent and what always lies beyond the wall
What Jesus' greatest commands and Galatians 3:28 say about the meaning of humanity
Effective Altruism
#thirdworldproblems
Why going to the movies is necessary to survival
Paul's vision of resurrection flowing out into the world
And how we participate in that process
The Embrace Project
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1h 48min
August 03, 2015Ep 2: Doomsday!
In this episode, Micah Redding and Amy Gaskin talk about doomsday!
Zero to One and the difference between horizontal and vertical progress
The tower of Babel
The 9 enneagram personality types
Missio Dei, The Mission of God
More about NT Wright (see this article on him and Peter Thiel)
Chick Tracts, for example
The Left Behind series
The Book of Job
The complicated relationship between grace and obedience
Living in a gravity well, and what that tells us about space travel, and the importance of the humanities
Who is Iron Man?
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1h 41min
July 06, 2015Ep 1: What is Transhumanism?
In this first episode, Micah Redding and Amy Gaskin ask the question 'What is Transhumanism?', and then go on to explore the landscape at the intersection of Christianity and Transhumanist thought.
More about Amy Gaskin and Micah Redding
The Cold Equations, Amy's first science fiction experience
Wikipedia's definition of transhumanism
Transhumanism's conflicted feelings about spirituality
The history of the word transhumanism
Dynamic optimism
Christianity is about resurrection, not escapism
Heaven is not my home - NT Wright
Transhumanism and the Christian story
Humanity+
The Christian Transhumanist Association
Further up! Further in!
"Transhumanism is at heart altruistic. You are not working for your own account. It's not about salivating upon hearing of a new technological consumer gadget or even trying to achieve personal immortality. You work for all, for a future with more options, more freedom, more safety, less hunger, less poverty, less death. Ultimately it's about creating a world with more good and less bad in it." - Koen De Paus
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1h 50min

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