The Future of Human Nature | A Pardee Center Conference
The conference focused on scientific and technological advances in genetics, computer science and their convergence during the next 50-250 years. The participants were especially interested in directed evolution, the futures it allows, the shape of society in those futures, and the robustness of human nature against technological change at the level of individuals, groups and societies.
Panel Discussion: Human Evolution and Genetic Enhancement
Prof. Alfred Tauber, Philosophy & Medicine, Boston University
Dr. Charles Cantor, Biomedical Engineering, Boston University
Dr. Lee Silver, Molecular Biology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Panel Discussion: The Inevitability of Human Genetic Enhancement and its Impact on Humanity
Dr. Tommaso Toffoli, Electrical and Computing Engineering, Boston University
Dr. Marvin Minsky, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
Dr. Christine Peterson, Foresight Institute, Inc.
Panel Discussion: Preserving Human Nature: Peaceful Coexistence Among Diverse Entities in a World of Hyper-advanced Technology
Dr. Kenneth Lewes, Psychoanalyst, NY
Dr. Steven Pinker, Psychology, MIT
Prof. Richard Schacht, Philosophy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Panel Discussion: Science and Human Nature
Prof. Stanley Rosen, Boston University
Prof. Daniel Kevles, , Yale University
Prof. George Annas, Boston University
Panel Discussion: Philosophy of Science and Computational Genetics
Dr. Evelyn Fox Keller, MIT
Prof. George Church, Harvard University
Prof. Lynn Margulis, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Panel Discussion: A Tale of Two Species
Prof. Lynn Margulis, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Prof. George Annas, Boston University
Prof. Evelyn Fox Keller, MIT
Anthony Gottlieb, Editor, The Economist
Prof. Roger Shattuck, Boston University