CARTAGENA THINKS: PHILOSOPHICAL CAFE. MARIAM CAZORLA CARAVACA 'DO WE REALLY WANT A LONG LIFE?'

CARTAGENA THINKS: PHILOSOPHICAL CAFES. MARIAM CAZORLA CARAVACA 'DO WE REALLY WANT A LONG LIFE?'

Given the advances in technology and medicine, the extension of life expectancy appears as an increasingly plausible horizon. However, this possibility opens up tensions that should be examined. First, the question of inequality arises: who will actually be able to access these innovations? The transhumanist horizon seems today closely linked to economic elites capable of turning longevity into a new tool for exploitation. Second, we must rethink our relationship with time: how would the stages of life—education, work, retirement—be redefined in a radically extended life? What would happen to our historical experience or to boredom? Finally, the planetary crisis poses a crucial question: does it make sense to aspire to longer lives in a world beset by crisis?

Mariam Cazorla Caravaca holds a degree in Philosophy from the University of Murcia. She also completed a Master's degree in Secondary Education Teacher Training at the University of Murcia and is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Philosophy of History at the Autonomous University of Madrid. During the 2024/2025 academic year, she received the "Start Your Research" grant from Banco Santander and the University of Murcia. Throughout her academic career, she has participated as a speaker at events organized by the University of Murcia, such as Researchers' Night (2024) and the Congress of Ecological Humanities (2025).

Presented by: Damián Pérez Olmos, Psychologist.
In collaboration with: Philosophy Society of the Region of Murcia

DATE: April 16, 2026

TIME: 7:00 PM

LOCATION: Little Tin Soldier Cafeteria