#355: Dr Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnson - The New Science Of Human Immortality
Dr Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston is a neuroscientist at Monash University, Australia, where he investigates methods for characterising the nature of conscious experiences, and author of The Future Loves You: How and Why We Should Abolish Death. In 2019, he obtained his PhD from The University of Melbourne, where he researched how genetic and environmental factors affect cognition. His research interests range from the decline, preservation and rescue of cognitive function at different stages of the lifespan, through to comparing different people’s conscious experience. Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 01:10 - The case against death 04:50 - palliative philosophy 09:45 - Aging, not disease is the underlying risk factor 11:34 - How effective are current anti-aging treatments? 13:30 - How Elizabeth Holmes paused death 14:09 - What actually is Death? 25:14 - Pausing Biology: Brain preservation, Cryonics 28:15 - Is Cryonics a scam and pseudoscience? 34:10 - Uploading someones brain to an AI 38:15 - Reviving someone after death 42:15 - Could consciousness survive in an alien host? 44:00 - The concern of uploading your consciousness into an AI host 46:10 - How does the scientific community view these ideas? 48:30 - How far away are we from immortality and revival after death? 53:00 - What makes Ariel’s life worth living? 54:00 - Connect with Ariel Connect with us: https://freedompact.co.uk/newsletter (Healthy, Wealthy & Wise Newsletter) www.Instagram.com/freedompact www.twitter.com/freedompactpod Email: freedompact@gmail.com https://Tiktok.com/personaldevelopment Connect with Ariel: https://www.arielzj.com