Episode Transcript: #1068 - Michael Shermer
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4, 3, 2, 1, ladies and gentlemen, Michael Sharma, in Heavens on Earth.
The scientific search for the afterlife, immortality, and utopia.
Did you find anything?
No, sorry.
Nothing?
Well, I found interesting journeys that people use to try to get there from both the religious
perspective and the scientific perspective.
So I do deal with the monotheism versions of the afterlife in Heaven, Judaism, Christianity,
and Islam.
But the core of the book is the radical life extensionists, the cryonists, transhumanists,
the extropians, the mind uploaders, the people that take all the supplements, and all the
whole range there.
I find that incredibly interesting.
They call it afterlife for atheists.
It is, right?
I mean, when you think about some of the people that are really over the top, did you go to
that 2045 thing in New York a few years back?
There was a futurist convention with all these people that, for whatever reason, they have
this arbitrary date of 2045.
Yes.