[ExI] SL-Transhumanists David Pearce in Second Life on Utopian Neuroscience, March 23

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http://transumanar.com/index.php/site/david_pearce_in_second_life_on_utopian_neuroscience_march_23/

http://translook.com/
http://superhappiness.com/
Video clip: http://metaxlr8.com:81/streams/davidpearcesl230308.html

David Pearce, co-founder of the WTA and creator of HedWeb (The
Hedonistic Imperative), gave a talk and a Q/A session in Second Life
yesterday 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".

About 35 transhumanists attended the presentation and asked many
question on utopian neuroscience, the meaning of happiness, the place
of superhappiness among transhumanist goals, existing and available
ways to enhance mood and happiness, future developments, and
transhumanism in general. There was no time to answer all questions
but Dave promised to show up at one of the next SL-Transhumanists
office hours to discuss more.

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".

Video clip of parts of Dave's talk and Q/A

The next speaker will be Lincoln Cannon of the Mormon Transhumanist
Association, on March 30. Starting from this next event we wish to
record the full audio of presentations and Q/A sessions and making
them available on the web and in SL as mp3 audio podcasts, please get
in touch with us if you wish to help.

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