David Pearce Will Mankind's Successors Be Our Descendants? | |
by Kim Solez | |
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David Pearce discusses the hedonic imperative, the | |
possibility of abolition of all pain and suffering and | |
resetting the hedonic set point, evolution to a more | |
advanced species by fine tuning our biology through | |
genetics in his lecture "Will Mankind's Successors Be Our | |
Descendants" on November 27, 2012, in the Technology and | |
Future of Medicine course LABMP 590 | |
http://www.singularitycourse.com at the University of | |
Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Table of contents by Laurie | |
Cat Bennett: 00:00-3:00 introduction, spectrum of | |
pleasure & pain, how would life be without pain? 3:32 | |
recalibrating our hedonic set points 5:55 life & | |
relationships without guilt, pain etc. would we | |
constantly be shifting partners and friends? 7:25 would | |
basic human goodness exist without pain? 17:25 would life | |
loose excitement without pain? 20:05 recalibrating | |
pleasure & pain spectrum, does 0 become 5? 26:08 mind | |
uploading challenges 30:55 could a computer be so | |
intelligent it becomes conscious? 33:08 should philosophy | |
be regulated? 36:00 is it possible to simulate human | |
brains in terms of personality, experiences etc? 39:30 | |
steps towards hedonic recalibration - where would it | |
start? how will it be performed? 44:00 editing hedonic | |
set points - memory retrieval 53:30 would depression and | |
mental illnesses exist without pain? 1:05.00 pain signals | |
removed, how to tell if something is wrong? Copyright | |
2012 Transpath Inc. | |
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