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 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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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

FAQs about The Christian Transhumanist Podcast:

How many episodes does The Christian Transhumanist Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 48 episodes available.