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The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic |
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engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in |
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all sentient life. |
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The abolitionist project is hugely ambitious but |
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technically feasible. It is also instrumentally rational |
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and morally urgent. The metabolic pathways of pain and |
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malaise evolved because they served the fitness of our |
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genes in the ancestral environment. They will be replaced |
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by a different sort of neural architecture - a |
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motivational system based on heritable gradients of |
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bliss. States of sublime well-being are destined to |
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become the genetically pre-programmed norm of mental |
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health. It is predicted that the world's last unpleasant |
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experience will be a precisely dateable event. |
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Two hundred years ago, powerful synthetic pain-killers |
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and surgical anesthetics were unknown. The notion that |
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physical pain could be banished from most people's lives |
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would have seemed absurd. Today most of us in the |
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technically advanced nations take its routine absence for |
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granted. The prospect that what we describe as |
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psychological pain, too, could ever be banished is |
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equally counter-intuitive. The feasibility of its |
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abolition turns its deliberate retention into an issue of |
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social policy and ethical choice. |
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