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47. Christopher Mason: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds and the Embryogenesis of Humanity
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In this episode Peter Garretson talks with Christopher Mason , a Professor of Genomics, Physiology, Biophysics, and Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medicine and Director of the WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, and principal investigator for the NASA Twins Study . The conversation explores the ideas in his book, The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds . The episode opens with Chris' thought experiment for long-term thinking, and the realization that the span of life on Earth is finite and its implications. The discussion delves into key concepts from his book such as his "deontogenic ethics," the human purpose as shepherds of life, the duty to engineer, the…