Description: Can biotechnology abolish suffering
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HEDWEB HI Abstract HI Table of Contents The Abolitionist Project Social Media & Q & A 2023 The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life.
The abolitionist project is hugely ambitious but technically feasible. It is also instrumentally rational and morally urgent. The metabolic pathways of pain and malaise evolved because they served the fitness of our genes in the ancestral environment. They will be replaced by a different sort of neural architecture - a motivational system based on heritable gradients of bliss. States of sublime well-being are destined to become the genetically pre-programmed norm of mental health. It is predicted th
HEDWEB HI Abstract HI Table of Contents The Abolitionist Project Social Media & Q & A 2024 The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life.