You're listening to the partially examined life, a philosophy podcast by some guys who

had one point said I'm doing philosophy, or in this case science, for a living, but then

thought better of it.

Our main question for episode 91 is, would it be good for us as a species to overcome

our current human state?

We'll be discussing an article by Nick Bostrom called, Why I Want to be a Post-Human

when I grow up in 2006, as well as continuing our last episode's discussion of David Brin's

novel, Existence, if you haven't yet listened to episode 90, I encourage you to do so before

tackling this one.

You can join the discussion to get the texts and lots more information at partiallyexaminedlife.com.

This is Mark Linson-Meier, broadcasting chiefly to the alien robots hiding in the asteroid

belt for Medicine, Wisconsin.

This is one of an uncountable number of copies of Seth Paskin in Austin, Texas.

This is Wes Alman in Boston, Massachusetts.

This is Dylan Casey, at least the voice of Dylan Casey in Milton, Wisconsin.

This is Brian Casey in Fitchburg, Wisconsin.

So I have listened to episode 90.

Was it awesome?

Am I the first person to listen to it?

And your experience listening to it wasn't that different from our experience listening

to it.

No, actually, it's not as bad as he's not as dominating as he's, I mean, there's still

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