Ep 32: Shannon Vyff, Cryonics & Religious Education

The Christian Transhumanist Podcast

Is cryonics selfish? What do Harry Potter, transhumanism, and religious education have in common? What happens when kids go door-to-door raising money for life extension? Shannon Vyff—Transhumanist, Cryonicist, Unitarian Universalist, and author of “21st Century Kids“, and “The Scientific Conquest of Death”—discusses all these questions and more!

• 21st Century Kids
• Hyperdrives, nano-minting, accelerated brains with direct computer interfaces, conversations with dolphins, indefinite lifespan
• Will AI have its own religions?
• How to involve your kids in big discussions about the future
• Kids raising money for life extension
• Nick Bostrom’s fable of the Dragon Tyrant
• The Scientific Conquest of Death
• Essay, Confessions of a Proselytizing Immortalist
• Discussing cryonics at your children's playgroup
• Caloric Restriction
• “The only thing that retards aging is calorie restriction. As genetic studies go forward, we’ll find out why.” — Roy Walford
• Calorie Restriction & intermittent fasting
• Cryonics & Common Questions
• Is cryonics selfish?
• In cryonics, are you taking up too much space?
• Why Cryonics might be more green than a burial
• How cryonics might help people who are living now
• Cryonics is "an ongoing experiment—a very long one"
• Kim Suozzi, the 23-year old neuroscience student who was in the midst of battling terminal brain cancer
• How cryonicists rallied to help fulfill her wishes—and preserve her after death
• What is natural? Is cryonics against God's will?
• “the naturalness of transhumanism (being open to what we may become)”
• How technology may reduce our environmental footprint
• What does "natural" or "biblical" actually mean?
  • The Year of Living Biblically
  • A Year of Biblical Womanhood
  • The future of religious education—virtual reality visits to religious history
• Can you be a Unitarian Universalist and a Transhumanist?
• Harry Potter, time travel, religious education and transhumanism
• Teaching the whole world of religion
• The history of Unitarianism and Universalism in America
• Shannon Vyff with Barbara Walters
• Organizations:
• Alcor
• Longecity
• SENS
• La Leche League
• Books:
• 21st Century Kids
• The Scientific Conquest of Death
• Shannon Vyff on Facebook