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stephen cave, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s a great pleasure. you believe that our human awareness of our own mortality is absolutely central to the human story. why? well, all creatures strive to live on, to keep going. they would not be around us any more if they did not. they wouldn t be around us any more if they didn t. the mouse that didn t care about surviving wouldn t pass on its genes. so we come for from a long line of creatures that are determined to keep going, but we have these big brains that s part of our survival mechanism, if you like that allow us to see the future, to generalise and we re conscious of ourselves as individuals, and that means we re conscious of our own deaths. and out of all the billions of creatures on earth, very few creatures have to live with that terrible awareness that one day, all of their efforts will come to nothing. and so, if we look back through human history, what we see is humanity struggling to m ....
which is straight after this programme. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. one of the key drivers of human thought and behaviour throughout history has been knowledge of our own mortality. from childhood each of us knows we will die. religion, philosophy and science all wrestle with that fact and have in different ways embraced the quest for immortality. my guess today, stephen cave, director of the cambridge institute for technology and humanity is at the centre of a growing debate about the merits of extending human longevity. is it wise to seek to live forever? stephen cave, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it is a great pleasure. you believe that our human awareness of our own mortality is absolutely central to the human story. why? well, all creatures strive to live on, to keep going. they would not be around us any more if they did not. the mouse that did not care about surviving would not pass on its genes. so we come for from a long line of cr ....
jesse wthey will be capable ofs his very high level brain state reading that reaches the final frontier of privacy. davos wants to readvo your mind. i am going to do a body i m g cavityoi search. wouldn t if i was, you know, passport, no photo , no problem. migrants cut the line while you get a pat down. i know what youon t got kno e ,but we got to find out. most of us are moved by our white tears because we don t actually think they re real. that s manipulation. that s strategice real. that s diabolical. shaming whitl that se people isw a big business. plus, i m like, totally naked. and i don t remember how i ended up naked. the meeting of the minds goes back to the ancient greeks when philosophers like aristotle and socrates used to gather in what they called a gorgeous a space wherea space philosophy and business and politics were discussed among some of athens best and brightest. these meetings generated a cauldron of ideas on how to organize society ....
jesse watters primetime. tonight capable of doing this very high level brain state reading that breaches the final frontier of privacy. jesse: davos. wants to read your mind. i m going to do a body cavity search. i wouldn t if i was you. jesse: no passport, no photo, no problem. migrants cut the line while you get a pat down. i don t know what you got in there, but we are going to find out. most of us aren t moved by white tears because we don t actually think they are real. that s manipulation, that s strategic. that s diabolical that s diabolical. jesse: shaming white people is now a big business. plus. i m, like, totally naked, and i don t remember how i ended up naked. jesse: the meeting of the minds goes back to the ancient greeks, when philosophers like aristotle and socrates used to gather in what they called agoras, a space or philosophy business and politics were discussed among the best and brightest. these meetings generated a ....
stephen cave, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s a great pleasure. you believe that our human awareness of our own mortality is absolutely central to the human story. why? well, all creatures strive to live on, to keep going. they wouldn t be around us any more if they didn t. the mouse that didn t care about surviving wouldn t pass on its genes. so we come from a long line of creatures that are determined to keep going. but we have these big brains, that s part of our survival mechanism, if you like, that allow us to see the future, to generalise. and we re conscious of ourselves as individuals, and that means we re conscious of our own deaths. and of all the billions of creatures on earth, very few creatures have to live with that terrible awareness that, one day, all of their efforts will come to nothing. and so, if we look back through human history, what we see is humanity struggling to make sense of this. some of the earliest archaeological evidenc ....