adam keiper of the ethics and public policy center, editor of the "new atlantis." christopher. >> thank you very much. it's a pleasure to be here. unlike most of the panelists so far i'm not a former student ofo leon kass. so i feel the need to ask permission do i call you leon? okay.ou leo but that down. nevertheless, even though i'm not a student i did feel a special kinship with leon w yesterday.my w my wife and i homeschool our children and i was very surprised to hear him describe so i could at the end of the qa session our high school curriculum, first you bible --g] [laughing] but this might get c-span's i'm not going to say more about that. [laughing] so our panel title is bioethics and the transhuman future. in an e-mail to me brad wilsonls also threw in the subject heading the word posthuman future just for good measure. the question i'm going to ask today is what you posthuman and transhuman mean? i'm going to argue that they have no meaning. there is no condition that could really be described in either oe these ways. all the conditions that we see thes

. >> this interesting question that i have is a much broader sampling it than it adam keiper but theres no way of those more extreme pictures that our parasitic over in some cases what you would have if you have it all in some of those visions they are not all its entire erotic innocence you have little. and this is a difficulty figuring out the conception of a person is true and what that means to find ones to assist -- truest fulfillment even in the finals -- final state of things we have nothing else to do or see or desire. >> but that has to be wrong. >> day wonder that specialist understand that point. >> i am available for consultation. i am not surprised nor disappointed the group of intellectuals through their artificial intelligence that the academic could remind us that we are rational animals this is for herb kurtis or anybody else but to set aside that immortality that is impossible. and that might to be right for those who are in this business to feed the opposite and i suppose we will have to wait and see. rather significant life extension with short and mortality with re

[applause] >> adam keiper. >> thank you very much, professor hassing, robby george, brad wilson, and the indefatigable extras for this with conference. thank you for your presence here especially during this difficult hour before lunch. thank you, chris toll live -- for the insight. i commend to you charlie rubin's book, eclipse of man, very smart explore asia of transhumannism and what it means to be human. there's a display copy outside. the prettiest book on the table. and it's available for sale at an amazon near you. i want to take a moment before starting to say just a few words at better lawler and leon cass. peter pass a teacher and a writer who did not shy away from difficult questions. in fact, like his hero, he relished paradox, he relished it. and he helped to us understand how, for example, we americans could be darwinian and religious, even puritan, all at once. he was a warm and funny and joyful and con vival southern gentleman. i feel his loss sharply and i am deeply grateful to have known him and worked with him. i am the editor of the new atlantis, a quarterly journ