Natural Cosmology Discussion March 28 at 7 PM

Join us for the next Natural Cosmology Discussion on March 28 at 7 PM.

Among other topics, we’ll be discussing the new book by Yuval Noah Harari called “Homo Deus”.
Consider: We now have the capability to easily alter the human genome and merge our bodies with technology. Will our children or grandchildren be the last Homo Sapiens? Here are the podcasts and articles.

Here’s an in-depth discussion with Sam Harris

https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/reality-and-the-imagination

Alternate location:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jgALWLc-JU

Here’s a panel discussion on super-intelligent AI:

https://www.samharris.org/blog/item/superintelligence-science-or-fiction?

Here are two articles:

Yuval Noah Harari: ‘Homo sapiens as we know them will disappear in a century or so’

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/mar/19/yuval-harari-sapiens-readers-questions-lucy-prebble-arianna-huffington-future-of-humanity

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari review – chilling

The epic, widely celebrated Sapiens gets the sequel it demanded: a breathless, compulsive inquiry into humanity’s apocalyptic, tech-driven future

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/11/homo-deus-brief-history-tomorrow-yuval-noah-harari-review

Here’s a link to the Natural Cosmology website:

https://sites.google.com/site/naturalcosmology/