David Pearce is an independent researcher and vegan animal activist based in Brighton UK.
In 1995, he wrote an online manifesto, The Hedonistic Imperative, advocating the use of biotechnology to abolish suffering throughout the living world. David predicts that our descendants will be animated by gradients of cerebral bliss orders of magnitude richer than anything accessible today.
[In his BLTC (Better Living Through Chemistry) Research websites, most recently The Abolitionist Project] David has also written on the philosophy of mind and perception; utilitarian ethics; psychopharmacology; life extension; cognitive enhancement technologies; mood enrichment; genetic recalibration of the hedonic treadmill; ecosystem redesign; reprogramming predators; and more speculatively on a posthuman future based on paradise engineering.
In 1998, David and Nick Bostrom set up the World Transhumanist Association (now rebranded as Humanity +. Transhumanists promote the responsible use of advanced technology to overcome our biological limitations.
This lecture was recorded on 24th April 2010 at the UKH+ meeting. For information on further meetings please see:
http://extrobritannia.blogspot.com/
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