Immortal intelligence and rise of the DNA-independent humanity (Lecture by Prof. Johan BJÖRKEGREN)

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Around 60,000 years ago, at the time when humans successfully migrated out of Africa, something transformational happened. Homo sapiens must have experienced significant DNA changes that profoundly altered our capacity to compete for natural resources. Critical for this change in our behaviors was a new capacity for abstract thinking. Today with AI, we are on the brink of taking the final step away from Darwin’s principle of Survival of the fittest by rapidly evolving to escape our DNA dependence altogether and thereby our mortality as well.

Lecture
Johan BJÖRKEGREN (Tokyo College Professor, Principal Researcher, Karolinska Institutet)

Comment
NOMURA Seitaro (Project Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine)

Q&A

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Michael FACIUS (Associate Professor, Tokyo College)