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future humans group - Berggruen Institute

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We are immersed in a time of meteoric change: Cosmologists’ observations reveal that only a fraction of the observable universe is made up of what they call matter. Scientific and kin-making collaborations with animals suggest that the mind extends beyond individual human brains. Intelligent machines are learning to respond to human emotions. Brain-computer interfaces that amplify human senses are altering the boundaries of our bodies. And biotechnologists simulate and then mold cells toward new evolutionary pathways, editing life itself. Concepts that ground matter, mind, intelligence, body, and life are undergoing momentous revisions. These transformations prompt us to consider the diversity of possible futures for humans, in connection with other biologies, beings, and the biosphere. The Future Humans theme asks: How can we construct a flourishing ecosystem that includes and integrates humans, the varied life forms of the planet, and new intelligences? What sorts of fragilities and

Berggruen Institute Future Humans is an interdisciplinary research initiative focused on exploring new configurations of life in the 21st century. Our work is organized around a central question: What will life become? Across neuroscience, biotechnology, astrobiology, and multispecies ecology, emerging technologies of perception are reshaping how life, intelligence, and consciousness are sensed, defined, and encountered. Future Humans maps this shifting philosophical and cultural terrain, recognizing the limits of inherited anthropocentric frameworks amid rapid technological and ecological tra

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