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Podcast: Freedom Pact | Joseph and Lewis
Episode: #355: Dr Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnson - The New Science Of Human Immortality
Description: 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...