Teemu Arina, Chief Biohacker and Chairman of the board at Biohacker Center based in Finland Participates in Risk Roundup to discuss Promise and Perils of the Biohacking movement.
The Promise and Perils of Biohacking
Freedom to explore human biology, the human brain, human life– and its ecosystem is a wonderful thing. Along with the democratization of information, tools, and technology, over the years, biohacking to neurohacking — the emerging decentralized, do it yourself self-biology and brain simulation movement brings nations a great promise for solving the complex problems facing humanity.
This is especially promising in a time when we are no longer confined to what nature must offer, as the advances in science and technology have given us the capability to even create living things. While what nature has given, is still the foundation to our natural human biological ecosystem, we, the humans are now able to build on this foundation and create a man-made, synthetic bio-ecosystem of our desire and definition.
The time is almost here, where the ability to create or manipulate human life and its potential seems restricted only by the imagination, as we will now be able to not only manipulate existing human body cells, tissues and systems– but also be able to build any cell, organism or biological species up from scratch.
So, when the emerging biohacking, neurohacking or lifehacking practice involves not only manipulating human systems but also genes and the brain—with or without sufficient understanding of its impact– the promise and perils of this emerging do-it-yourself movement need to be properly understood and evaluated.
So, as we take a step forward towards the de-centralization of biology, it is important to understand where this trend is taking us and where we are going. And since decentralization is being considered a milestone in democratization, and a force for good in the world, what does the idea of broadening participation in human biology research bring to the current and future state of not only biology but also humanity. It is important to understand and evaluate where are emerging citizen science and the democratization of scientific tools taking humanity. Time is now to understand and evaluate The Promise and Perils of Biohacking!
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About the Guest
Teemu Arina is the Chief Biohacker and Chairman of the board at Biohacker Center based in Finland. He is also the co-author of the bestselling Biohacker’s Handbook (2016 Finnish; 2018 English) for optimizing sleep, exercise, nutrition, mind and work with technological and biological tools and co-author of the Biohacker’s Stress Manual (2018 Finnish: 2019 English) for optimizing the human nervous system. He is also the recipient of the Leonardo Award (under the patronage of the European Parliament and UNESCO) under the title of Humanity in Digitization (2015 Germany).
His work focuses on studying the intersection of man and the machine and ways to improve productivity, health, and wellbeing with biological and technological tools. He is one of the forefront thinkers on the digital transformation of learning, work, leadership, health, and – eventually – the future of humanity. His work focuses on studying the intersection of man and the machine and ways to improve productivity, health, and / wellbeing with biological and technological tools.
Mr. Arina received the Leonardo Award (under the patronage of the European Parliament and UNESCO) under the title of Humanity in Digitization (2015 Germany). Mr. Arina has been selected as the Top 100 most influential people in IT by TIVI (2016 Finland). Mr. Arina is a popular keynote speaker who has presented in the USA, UK, Japan, Russia, China, and Germany among others, and was selected as the Speaker of the Year by
Speakers forum (2017 Finland). In his free time, he enjoys photography, foraging, and crazy
biohacking experiments.
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