TVO - Big Ideas, Oct 15 2011: John Gray on The Immortalization Commission

TVO - Big Ideas, October 15 2011: John Gray on The Immortalization Commission

Philosopher and author, John Gray, on The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death. In the late nineteenth century and as a consequence of Darwinism, many thinkers turned to science to solve the riddle of death. Philosopher and author John Gray explores humankind's dangerous striving toward a scientific version of immortality.

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Type: mp4 file
Size: 171MB
Runtime: 00:43:09
Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 480x270 29.97fps
Audio: AAC 32000Hz mono 48Kbps

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcnCmx7F6a8

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