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@ -16,14 +16,19 @@ fyodor dostoyevsky says suffering is a necessary part of human life.
How do we define human progress?
Transhumanism/hedonistic imperative
- we limit physical pain by drugs
- we limit physical pain by drugs (this seemed unrealistic to earlier humans)
- why not limit all pain and place ourselves in an eternal state of bliss
- we are the last of a dying breed
- the last to exist in the "darwinian pathology of conciousness"
This idea has a lot of implications:
- if we cant feel any pain, will we still be able to experience pleasure
- if we cant feel any pain, will we still be able to experience pleasure? will life become numb?
- one arugment is that yes we will since people who are in almost constant pain still know they are in pain
- Will we still be motivated to create new things, experiement, improve our condition etc
- Will we still be motivated (to make things better) to create new things, experiement, improve our condition etc
- "mental strength" (e.g., stoicism, buddism) might be unnecesary
- future generation will look at us the way we looked at e.g., plato (how different their world is)
- we base a lot of judgements (eg., what is progress) on limiting suffering
- deeper more complex emotions (pleasure)?
Dream thought experiment
- if every time you slept and had a dream you lived a ful 75 year lifetime in that dream