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  1. Medical Assistance in Dying 1: Judicial activism, a ‘reasonably foreseeable’ death, the unacceptability of suffering, and reasons to stay alive

    Publicerades: 2023-01-18

  2. Martin Rees 3: Pre-emptive science fiction, the morality-reality gap, adventurers on Mars, and the mind of the Creator

    Publicerades: 2023-01-11

  3. Martin Rees 2: Blurred humanity, re-dignifying care work, algorithms reading lung X-rays, and the risks of virtual life

    Publicerades: 2023-01-04

  4. Martin Rees 1: Advances in artificial intelligence, the Eliza effect, passing the Turing Test, and the problem of other minds

    Publicerades: 2022-12-28

  5. Social media and politics 2: A mucky business, the ultimate conspiracy theory, ‘showbiz for ugly people’, and and atomised individuals

    Publicerades: 2022-12-21

  6. Social media and politics 1: The judgemental society, 3,000 offensive tweets a day, freedom from vs freedom to, and Elon Musk’s Twitter

    Publicerades: 2022-12-14

  7. Mental health 2: Emotional resilience, the bio-psycho-social model, the power of story, and depression in the Psalms

    Publicerades: 2022-12-07

  8. Mental health 1: Power dynamics, the psychiatrist as brick wall, casualties of social media, and over-pathologising distress

    Publicerades: 2022-11-30

  9. Dependence 2: The Panopticon at home, evangelising to retirees, existential angst in the House of Lords, and rejecting self-sufficiency

    Publicerades: 2022-11-23

  10. Dependence 1: Isolated elderly people, altruistic suicide, a second childhood, and a crucified hero

    Publicerades: 2022-11-16

  11. Protestant Social Teaching 2: The ars moriendi, open casket funerals in Derry Girls, the end of Christendom and ethical quietism

    Publicerades: 2022-11-09

  12. Protestant Social Teaching 1: Overlap with Catholicism, chronological snobbery, rejecting one-size-fits-all ethics, and ‘worldly’ versus ‘spiritual’ matters

    Publicerades: 2022-11-02

  13. AI sentience 2: I-Thou relationships, talking to stuffed animals, thanking Alexa, and Turing red flag laws

    Publicerades: 2022-10-26

  14. AI sentience 1: Blake Lemoine and LaMDA, trillions of words, mute idols, and the God who speaks

    Publicerades: 2022-10-19

  15. Matters of Life and Death: The book reconsidered, the Moscow State University reading list, audiobooks, and the decline of the reading Christian

    Publicerades: 2022-10-12

  16. Embryology 2: Psalm 139, reconsidering ‘ensoulment’, the language of right and wrong, and co-operation with evil

    Publicerades: 2022-10-05

  17. Embryology 1: A stem cell ‘Mini Me’, CRISPR, Brave New World, and extending the 14-day limit

    Publicerades: 2022-09-28

  18. Evolution 2: Tracking coronavirus variants, the immorality of mutation, roughly one thousand hominids, and intelligent uncertainty

    Publicerades: 2022-09-21

  19. The Queen: Monarchy as service, astonishing the President of Ireland, the changing Christmas Speech, and a testimonial faith

    Publicerades: 2022-09-14

  20. Evolution 1: Finding common ground, the cosmic watchmaker, interpreting Genesis, and a 6,000-year-old Earth?

    Publicerades: 2022-09-07

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In each episode of Matters of Life and Death, brought to you by Premier Unbelievable, John Wyatt and his son Tim discuss issues in healthcare, ethics, technology, science, faith and more. John is a doctor, professor of ethics, and writer and speaker on these topics, while Tim is a religion and social affairs journalist. We talk about how Christians can better engage with a particular question of life, death or something else in between. For more resources to help you explore faith and the big questions, visit: http://www.premierunbelievable.com If you want to go deeper into some of the topics we discuss, find more resources to read, listen to and watch at John’s website: http://www.johnwyatt.com

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