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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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