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April 28, 2012

Natasha Vita-More - Unfixing Biology; Rethinking Mortality





 Natasha Vita-More

Natasha Vita-More is a transhumanist, media artist and designer, with a science background, known for designing "Primo Posthuman."This future human prototype incorporates biotechnology, robotics, information technology, nanotechnology, cognitive and neuroscience for human enhancement and extreme life extension.
Natasha Vita-More, Ph.D. researcher at the Centre for Media, Art and Design University of Plymouth, is Chair of Humanity+. The New York Times called her “the first female philosopher of transhumanism” (2008) and Wired featured her as the “spokesperson for superlongevity” (2000).

Vita-More is best known for designing “Primo Posthuman” a future human prototype, conceptually engineering nanorobotics, artificial general intelligence, and whole brain emulation.

She is the co-editor of The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary Essays on the Science, Technology and Philosophy of the Human Future with Max More.

Vita-More has appeared in more than twenty-four televised documentaries on culture and the future, featured on NPR Radio, and in Flaunt, LA Weekly, Village Voice, Marie Claire, Harper’s Bazaar, U.S. News & World Report, and Teleopolis. She is currently hosting “itch+” question and debate series at TeleXLR8.




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