Joshua Swamidass - Philosophy of Biological Death

Make a donation to Closer To Truth to help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions without the need for paywalls: https://shorturl.at/OnyRq

Defining death is no longer simple. Brain death can be irreversible while the heart can keep beating for years. Consider the great costs of prolonging life artificially and the great needs to harvest organs to save the living.

Follow us on X for announcements, updates, and more: https://x.com/CloserToTruth

S. Joshua Swamidass is a computational biologist, physician, and author. He is an associate professor of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine, and a Faculty Lead of Translational Bioinformatics in the Institute for Informatics at Washington University in St. Louis.

Watch more interviews on defining death: https://shorturl.at/jdqdh

Closer To Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and directed by Peter Getzels, presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.