Transhumanist Party Enlightenment Salon

On Sunday, October 26, 2025, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, watch a stream of notable events that transpired in Madrid, Spain, on October 1, 2025, International Longevity Day, including the March for Longevity and presentations of various approaches in the fight against aging and disease by Vijay Vaswani, Holger Heyn, Gil Rodas, Steve Horvath, and Michael Ringel.The stream begins with the March for Longevity that took place in Madrid on International Longevity Day, October 1, 2025. The march took participants through some of the main streets and plazas of Madrid and ended in front of Madrid City Hall, all the while a battle against the Grim Reaper was waged.Footage of the march includes remarks by José Luis Cordeiro, organizer of the TransVision Madrid 2025 International Longevity Summit, and Juan Llopis Climent, Secretary of Alianza Futurista, the transhumanist political party in Spain.The stream continues with a session from Day 1 of the TransVision Madrid 2025 Summit, entitled “The Cellular Model of Age: Decoding Healthspan through Exercise, Immunology, and Epigenetics”, featuring detailed presentations by Vijay Vaswani and Holger Heyn, co-founders of Omniscope; Dr. Gil Rodas – the medical doctor for the FC Barcelona soccer club, who, in his presentation entitled “Integrating Deep Immune Profiling in Modern Football Medicine”, discussed insights regarding longevity in athletes and why athletes tend to live longer than the general population; and Dr. Steve Horvath of Altos Labs, who, in his presentation on “Epigenetic Clocks, Immunity, and Interventions”, provided an overview of his famous studies regarding aging clocks and which medical treatments and lifestyle approaches do and do not affect aging at the epigenetic level.Dr. Michael Ringel of Life Biosciences then delivered a presentation entitled “Partial Epigenetic Reprogramming to Reverse Age-Related Diseases” to discuss both the theory behind partial epigenetic reprogramming and some of its proximate applications.The U.S. Transhumanist Party thanks TransVision Madrid and its fellow transhumanist political party in Spain, Alianza Futurista, for providing the means to offer these presentations to our audience. In particular, we thank Sergio Tarrero of Alianza Futurista for the edited videos pertaining to the March for Longevity and the presentations from Omniscope and Dr. Gil Rodas.Visit the website of TransVision Madrid: https://www.transvisionmadrid.com/Visit the website of Alianza Futurista: https://www.alianzafuturista.com/Visit the website of Omniscope: https://www.omniscope.ai/Visit the website of Altos Labs: https://www.altoslabs.com/Visit the website of Life Biosciences: https://www.lifebiosciences.com/Watch the U.S. Transhumanist Party’s previous stream of TransVision Madrid presentations from Jose Cordeiro, Aubrey de Grey, and David Wood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV6njT849XI

On Sunday, October 5, 2025, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, watch the presentations from Dr. Jose Cordeiro, David Wood, and Dr. Aubrey de Grey, that were delivered during Day 2 of the TransVision Madrid 2025 International Longevity Summit on October 2, 2025. From Madrid, Spain, the U.S. Transhumanist Party is pleased to stream to you these in-depth presentations by three of the leading transhumanist thinkers. Dr. Jose Cordeiro provided an overview of the TransVision Madrid conference, the role of Spain in advancing healthy longevity, and how the history and trajectory of technological advances can bring about “Vita Plus Ultra” – “life far beyond” current limits. Dr. Aubrey de Grey provided a presentation entitled “Where do we stand?” – highlighting the current status of the quest to reverse biological aging through the damage-repair approach, including key insights from the Robust Mouse Rejuvenation Study #1 (RMR1) and the major objectives of the RMR2 study for which the pilots are now underway.David Wood presented on the Longevity Dividend and the Longevity Dividend Paradox – why correct arguments about the massive economic benefits of greatly extended longevity have not yet led to significant political support for rejuvenation research – and how that paradox might be overcome.The U.S. Transhumanist Party thanks TransVision Madrid and its fellow transhumanist political party in Spain, Alianza Futurista, for providing the means to offer these presentations to our audience. Visit the website of TransVision Madrid: https://www.transvisionmadrid.com/ Visit the website of the Longevity Escape Velocity Foundation (LEVF): https://levf.org Watch the previous Virtual Enlightenment Salons with Jose Cordeiro, David Wood, and Aubrey de Grey:- Jose Cordeiro (September 20, 2020) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmF-6ftCm3U - Aubrey de Grey (February 21, 2021) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohet4kAfskM - David Wood on “Vital Foresight” (July 18, 2021) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9Aj7Z6qcnM - David Wood on the Transhumanist Shadow (January 2, 2022) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPbijrxUm3o - Aubrey de Grey on Robust Mouse Rejuvenation (February 19, 2023) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx45Z9eRLb8&t=2s - Jose Cordeiro and David Wood on “The Death of Death” (June 25, 2023) –https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf6SXx_VNis

On Sunday, September 21, 2025, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites Professor Stefan Lorenz Sorgner to discuss Euro-Transhumanism, a term he coined in 2022 for a vision that emphasizes a culturally nuanced, ethical, and inclusive approach to technological enhancement. The Virtual Enlightenment Salon will include a discussion of what Euro-Transhumanism is, what differentiates it from “classical transhumanism” in Sorgner’s view, what are some of its policy implications, and what American politics can learn from Euro-Transhumanism, especially in light of the quite turbulent recent political events in the United States.Stefan Lorenz Sorgner is a world-leading philosopher recognized for his work in posthumanism, transhumanism, Nietzsche, and the philosophy of music. He is especially known for his interpretations of Friedrich Nietzsche and his critical engagement with human enhancement and emerging technologies. He is a philosophy professor at John Cabot University in Rome, Director and Co-Founder of the Beyond Humanism Network, and a Fellow and Advisor of numerous organizations, as well as Editor-in-Chief and Founding Editor of the Journal of Posthuman Studies, and a prolific public speaker.Stefan Lorenz Sorgner has authored numerous books on philosophy, including “Metaphysics Without Truth” (2007), “On Transhumanism” (2020), “We Have Always Been Cyborgs” (2022), and “Philosophy of Posthuman Art” (2022).Learn more about Stefan Lorenz Sorgner on his website: www.sorgner.deRead the THPedia entry about Stefan Lorenz Sorgner: https://th-pedia.org//wiki/Stefan_Lorenz_Sorgner

On Sunday, September 7, 2025, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, watch the U.S. Transhumanist Party Virtual Enlightenment Salon with Rafi Qumsieh, founder of Breakthrough Labs, which is focused on building AI agents to aid in scientific discovery, including pursuing advances in longevity, disease cures, nuclear fusion, mathematics, consciousness research, and philosophy. Rafi Qumsieh provides an overview of the current state of functionality of various agentic AI systems, as well as their limitations and opportunities for improvement in the coming years. He also demonstrates the functionality of Aristotle, the system developed by Breakthrough Labs to leverage the power of Large Language Models to generate high-quality solutions and hypotheses in a variety of scientific fields. This Salon includes in-depth exchanges between Rafi Qumsieh and the U.S. Transhumanist Party panelists – Gennady Stolyarov II (Chairman), Dan Elton (Director of Scholarship), and Art Ramon Garcia, Jr. (Director of Visual Art) – regarding emerging developments in the capabilities and applications of AI models. Visit the website of Breakthrough Labs: https://breakthroughlabs.ai/ Try the Aristotle agentic AI here: https://heuristic-mauve.vercel.app/

On Sunday, August 24, 2025, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites Josh Universe to discuss the privacy and security considerations of technological enhancement. His presentation and subsequent conversation will address the following areas:1. Real-World Breaches2. Defining Privacy and Security in Context3. What is Technological Enhancement?4. Privacy and Security Risks of Enhancement5. Approaching Enhancement with a Privacy and Security Mindset6. Actionable Privacy and Security Steps 7. Questions and AnswersJosh Universe is an American analog astronaut, science communicator, and biohacker. He is the Founder of the International Biohacking Community. He is also the Founder of the Transhumanist Council.Watch the previous U.S. Transhumanist Party Virtual Enlightenment Salon with Josh Universe of March 30, 2025, where he discussed Applications of Human Biostasis in Crewed Space Exploration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf40zZyNqkc Visit the website of Josh Universe at https://joshuniverse.com/. Read the THPedia entry about Josh Universe at https://th-pedia.org//wiki/Josh_Universe. Visit the website of the Transhumanist Council at https://transhumanism.app/ Join Josh Universe’s social network, Science.Social: https://science.social/

U.S. Transhumanist Party Virtual Enlightenment Salon with Join Steve for a wonderful conversation with Sophia. Sophia is a very talented musical artist and entertainer who brings the experience to the world in a unique and fascinating fashion.On Sunday, August 10, 2025, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party invites Scarlet Zanarkand to discuss areas of alignment and connection between the transhumanist and transgender movements and how the two movements can act as allies to satisfy shared objectives through advocating for individual freedom, science, and technology. She will also discuss what a more technological future may hold for persons who may wish to transform their identities in a variety of possible ways. Scarlet Zanarkand is a libertarian activist who runs the Transformation HQ server on Discord and advocates for both transgender persons and transhumanists and seeks to be a welcoming place for all individuals and allies of LGBTQ+ and other trans identities. The Transformation HQ server emphasizes personal autonomy, bioethics, and informed consent as core principles in both current and theoretical forms of transformation. Scarlet Zanarkand holds the view that all transhumanists are united by a common goal of transformation; whether that is to revert to our younger years, to gain an increase of health and ability, or to achieve some kind of alteration such as the idea of becoming a "cyborg" in the future. She believes that all trans identities will be made possible through technology associated with transhumanism and looks forward to seeing the progress.Visit the Transformation HQ server on Discord: https://discord.gg/z5GPnNPHT3 Section II of the U.S. Transhumanist Party Platform - https://transhumanist-party.org/platform/ - “supports all acceptance, tolerance, and inclusivity of individuals and groups of all races, genders, classes, religions, creeds, and ideologies. Accordingly, the United States Transhumanist Party condemns any hostile discrimination or legal restrictions on the basis of national origin, skin color, birthplace, ancestry, gender identity, or any manner of circumstantial attribute tied to a person’s lineage or accident of birth.” Section VI of the U.S. Transhumanist Party Platform “upholds morphological freedom—the right to do with one’s physical attributes or intelligence whatever one wants so long as it does not directly harm others.”Section XLIX of the USTP Platform also specifically supports the rights of transgender individuals. It reads as follows: “The United States Transhumanist Party supports efforts to increase autonomy of individuals to decide over their own bodies and holds that individuals should have the legal right to undertake procedures including gender reassignment, hysterectomies, vasectomies, technological augmentation, cosmetic alterations, genetic enhancements, and physical supplementation at or after the age of 18 years, as long as this does not create health hazards or threats to other individuals.”

On Sunday, July 27, 2025, at 1 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time, the U.S. Transhumanist Party presents a dual Virtual Enlightenment Salon, featuring conversations about both the scientific and activist dimensions of longevity.First, watch Dr. Matthew “Oki” O’Connor of Cyclarity Therapeutics discuss Cyclarity’s efforts to develop new, easy-to-use drugs to prevent atherosclerosis, heart attacks, and strokes by addressing the underlying cause, the build-up of arterial plaque. The technology of Cyclarity Therapeutics removes arterial plaque by clearing the non-degradable cholesterol that accumulates within cells in the arterial walls. Its products are based on novel derivatives of a well-known, safe compound, and a new way of looking at cardiovascular disease. A panel including U.S. Transhumanist Party Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II, Dr. Bill Andrews (the USTP's Biotechnology Advisor and Founder and CEO of Sierra Sciences), and Daniel Twedt (the USTP's Director of Community and Citizen Science and 2024 U.S. Vice-Presidential Candidate) asked detailed questions to explore Cyclarity's approach and its lead product, UDP-003.Next, watch the Longevity Activist Panel from RAADfest 2025 in Las Vegas, recorded on July 12, 2025, and moderated by Dr. Jose Cordeiro, the U.S. Transhumanist Party's Technology Advisor and Foreign Ambassador in Spain. Panelists include U.S. Transhumanist Party Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II, Cody Dean of Immortalis, and Joe Bardin of the Coalition for Radical Life Extension, which co-organized RAADfest 2025 along with the Longevity Escape Velocity Foundation (LEVF). The Longevity Activist Panel also had a special visit from the Grim Reaper himself, and he was banished from RAADfest... again, but not before answering some audience questions.The Virtual Enlightenment Salon stream concludes with a musical section, featuring three compositions by USTP Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II, remastered by USTP Legislative Director Jason Geringer:- Man's Struggle Against Death, Op. 57- Fanfare of Perseverance, Op. 58- Transhumanist March, Op. 78***Dr. Matthew O’Connor is the CEO of Scientific Affairs at Cyclarity Therapeutics. He was awarded his Master’s Degree in Neuroscience from Northwestern Medical in 1999 and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Baylor College of Medicine in 2005. His postdoctoral research includes work at UC Berkeley on muscle stem cells and aging. He is the former VP of Research at SENS Research Foundation, where he oversaw a broad swath of research projects spanning many aspects of rejuvenation biotechnology from which he authored many papers and patents.Cyclarity's research has combined computational and synthetic chemistry programs to create custom-engineered cyclodextrins (polysaccharides with known industrial and pharmaceutical excipient uses) to capture, and remove from cells, oxidized cholesterol derivatives such as 7-ketocholesterol, which are broadly toxic molecules with no known biological function.Visit the website of Cyclarity Therapeutics at https://cyclaritytx.com/.Visit the website of the Coalition for Radical Life Extension at https://www.rlecoalition.com/.Visit the website of the Longevity Escape Velocity Foundation (LEVF) at https://levf.org.