Leda Cosmides on Transhumanism

Yesterday, I listened (twice!) to an absoluting mind-blowing podcast (30 minutes) from All in the Mind of a lecture on Transhumanism by evolutionary psychologist Leda Cosmides.

From the podcast notes:

Transhumanists are hell-bent on extending their lives beyond the current limits of the flesh, by exploiting cutting-edge genomics, stem-cell research, robotics and nanotechnology. Engineering evolution is their goal. But can they re-engineer our Darwinian mind? Leda Cosmides, renowned pioneer of the controversial field evolutionary psychology, asks, 'Are We Already Transhuman?'

Lena demonstrates how our minds and behaviours have co-evolved with our environment over millenia; that we are not and cannot ever be separate from that environment—or from our own human identity. Woven around this central theme are a wealth of telling observations on the nature of memory, cognition and identity.

A must-listen for all identity truth-seekers.