The Hidden Brain podcast reflects on the steadily shrinking divide between human and machine. What is the potential for a deep, intense relationship with artificial lovers? And does it help if those partners are designed to look like people and to generate an illusion of empathy and intelligence?
Why are people so obsessed with the idea of immortality? Meet the transhumanists who are convinced that a cure for ageing is within reach and that within a few decades, we’ll no longer face death