I'm a scientific advisor for Kernel, and I think Bryan Johnson is one of the most future-leaning guys I know.
Our ignorance of the cosmos is too vast to commit to atheism, and yet we know too much to commit to a particular religion. A third position, agnosticism, is often an uninteresting stance in which a person simply questions whether his traditional religious story is true or not true. I call myself a possibilian. Find out why.
Why should the US invest in brain science? See David's opinion in the New York Times.
Sum was selected as Book of the Week by both The Guardian newspaper and The Week newsmagazine.
Sum was the only book of fiction in New Scientist magazine's selection of Best Books of 2009.