Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2021-06-07
Books mentioned on #189 – David Sinclair: Extending the Human Lifespan Beyond 100 Years
David Sinclair is a geneticist at Harvard and author of Lifespan. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Onnit: https://lexfridman.
Lex Fridman discussed The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker and Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Denial of Death
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning philosophical and psychological study that argues human behavior is fundamentally driven by an unconscious terror of mortality and the subsequent cultural mechanisms created to deny it.
Discussed“somebody i've enjoyed reading ernest becker wrote the denial of death”
Where to get it
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Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E.
Discussed“so again ernest becker but also victor franklin recommended highly man search for meeting uh bernard williams”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Lifespan
“he's the author of the book lifespan and co-founder of several biotech companies”
Plugged Lifespan
“he's a professor in the department of genetics at harvard and co-director of the paul f glenn center for the biology of aging at harvard medical school he's the author of the book lifespan and co-founder of several biotech companies”
Plugged Lifespan
“i wrote about it um in life span the book and pictured a future where you would be monitored constantly so that you wouldn't suddenly have a heart attack”