BBC World Service The Forum - a world of idea discusses what makes us human
In front of an attentive audience at the Soundings Theatre, part of New Zealand’s national treasure, the Te Papa Museum, the programme’s host BRIDGET KENDALL and her guests explored some aspects of what makes us human on a radio show called The Forum which was broadcast on the BBC World Service on 18th October 2009.
Writer and teacher BERNARD BECKETT, whose science-fiction novel Genesis probes the interface between people and machines, asked if there really is something so unique to mankind as a species that it is impossible to replicate us artificially. Former New Zealand MP and Professor at the Institute of Public Policy MARILYN WARING challenged our notion of what we deem valuable. Director of the Bioengineering Research Institute at the University of Auckland PETER HUNTER revealed how the Physiome Project is about to transform our understanding of the human body and why applying the things that engineering has learned over the last century and a half to medicine could lead to much more personalised healthcare.
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