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David Pearce in Second Life on Utopian Neuroscience


Posted: Mar 23, 2008

SUNDAY - March 23 - 10am - 12am SLT
SL-Transhumanists @ Extropia Core

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David Pearce, co-founder of the WTA and creator of HedWeb (The Hedonistic Imperative), will give a talk and a Q/A session in Second Life on March 23, 10am SLT, on Utopian Neuroscience. A summary of David’s talk is on his website Superhappiness.

David promotes nothing less than the abolition of suffering in all sentient life. He argues that the abolition of suffering can be accomplished through Paradise Engineering (The Hedonistic Imperative). David will try to distinguish between the Abolitionist Project -i.e. getting rid of suffering, from a much more controversial claim: “I predict that our superintelligent descendants will be animated by gradients of bliss orders of magnitude richer than anything physiologically accessible today”.

Wikipedia: “David Pearce is a British philosopher and negative utilitarian. He promotes the abolition of suffering in all sentient life. His book-length internet manifesto The Hedonistic Imperative[1] details how he believes the abolition of suffering can be accomplished through “paradise engineering”. A transhumanist vegan, Pearce also calls for the elimination of cruelty to animals. Among his websites, there are many devoted to the plight of animals”.


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