We are at the very outset of the Age of Biotechnology. This presses anew questions regarding the limits of the human person. What is the human species from the point of view of evolutionary biology? How malleable is this definition? Is there such a thing as a species? How does this compare to philosophical perspectives on the person? The questions above are not new, but they have acquired new urgency with recent advances in biotechnology. In ths symposium, six distinguished scholars discuss these and other pressing questions in two panels–the first addressing these issues in the practice of science and application of biotechnology in the world, and the second addressing these issues from the point of theory. Part I: Praxis Gaymon Bennett (Arizona State University): “The Algorithm and the Spirit: Big Tech and the Enchantments of Biotechnology” (1:44) John Novembre (University of Chicago): “The expanding scope for genetic discrimination: New genetic predictors and their challenges” (42:16) Stephen Meredith (University of Chicago): “Brave New World: Revisited – Revisited.” (1:10:05)
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