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David Pearce (philosopher)
David Pearce is a British philosopher. He promotes the idea that there exists a strong ethical imperative for humans to work towards the abolition of suffering in all sentient life. His book-length internet manifesto ''The Hedonistic Imperative'' outlines how technologies such as genetic engineering, nanotechnology, pharmacology, and neurosurgery could potentially converge to eliminate all forms of unpleasant experience among human and non-human animals, replacing suffering with gradients of well-being, a project he refers to as "paradise engineering". A transhumanist and a vegan,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Criação animal intensiva. Um outro Holocausto? )〕 Pearce believes that we (or future evolutions of humans) have a responsibility not only to avoid cruelty to animals within human society but also to redesign the global ecosystem so that animals do not suffer in the wild.
Pearce co-founded Humanity+, then known as the World Transhumanist Association, and is a prominent figure in the transhumanism movement, inspiring a strain of transhumanism based on paradise engineering and ending suffering.〔(Humanity+ Transhumanist FAQ )〕
==The Hedonistic Imperative==
Pearce is primarily known as the author of ''The Hedonistic Imperative'', a 1995 book-length manifesto in which he theorises how to "eradicate suffering in all sentient life" through paradise engineering. In Pearce's view, suffering is not necessary for humans and only exists because humanity evolved through methods that emphasised survival, rather than happiness. He writes that mental suffering will someday be seen as a relic of the past, just as physical suffering during surgery was effectively eliminated with the advent of anaesthesia.
In his work, Pearce outlines how drugs and technologies, including genetic engineering and nanotechnology, could enable the end of suffering in all sentient life.〔(Lifeboat Foundation Bios: David Pearce )〕 In the short term, Pearce argues, well-being can be helped by designer drugs, especially since safer mood-brighteners are becoming more readily available.〔(Humanity+ Transhumanism Resources )〕 In the long-term, however, suffering could be abolished by genetic engineering through biotechnology.〔
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