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Before you come to our “The Body as the Last Frontier” event on November 5th, you can dive into the theme with our specially designed Starter Pack! Watch, listen, and read our tips for researching the topic.
Accessible & big picture
Books
Homo Deus - Yuval Noah Harari Explores how humanity can pursue immortality, happiness, and divine powers in the future.
Alone Together - Sherry Turkle Analyzes how technology affects human relationships and embodied presence.
Being You - Anil Seth Explains consciousness as a controlled hallucination formed by the body and brain.
Epistemics of the virtual - J.F. Hoorn Hoorn argues that confusion of identity, metaphorical language, and illusions blur the line between fiction and reality, fundamentally affecting our perception and interpretation of the virtual.
The human frontier - Peter-Paul Verbeek Book about how technological interventions such as brain implants, prostheses and genetics not only make people “better”, what a dignified life is, and raise questions about ethics and human imperfection.
AI Love the Podcast - Human Love and relationship forms are changing now that AI is increasingly taking intimate roles, such as whether you're “cheating” with a chatbot, whether you can experience real intimacy without physical contact, and what it means to stay fully human in relationships with technology.
