Humane Hancock | Might We Abolish Suffering & Live in Bliss? | David Pearce @HumaneHancock | Uploaded May 2021 | Updated October 2024, 17 minutes ago.
David Pearce is a prominent figure within the transhumanism movement and one of the co-founders of the World Transhumanist Association, currently rebranded and incorporated as Humanity+.
Pearce maintains a series of websites devoted to transhumanist topics and what he calls the "hedonistic imperative", a moral obligation to work towards the abolition of suffering in all sentient life. His self-published internet manifesto, The Hedonistic Imperative (1995), outlines how pharmacology, genetic engineering, nanotechnology and neurosurgery could converge to eliminate all forms of unpleasant experience from human and non-human life, replacing suffering with "gradients of bliss". Pearce calls this the "abolitionist project".
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0:00 - Introduction
0:48 - Veganism
3:10 - Transhumanism & The Abolitionist Project
7:43 - The Reproductive Revolution
12:13 - Public Perception
13:39 - Objections
16:46 - Wild Animal Suffering
David Pearce is a prominent figure within the transhumanism movement and one of the co-founders of the World Transhumanist Association, currently rebranded and incorporated as Humanity+.
Pearce maintains a series of websites devoted to transhumanist topics and what he calls the "hedonistic imperative", a moral obligation to work towards the abolition of suffering in all sentient life. His self-published internet manifesto, The Hedonistic Imperative (1995), outlines how pharmacology, genetic engineering, nanotechnology and neurosurgery could converge to eliminate all forms of unpleasant experience from human and non-human life, replacing suffering with "gradients of bliss". Pearce calls this the "abolitionist project".
Full discussion here: youtube.com/watch?v=n1qXVB0m7tE
To support me (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/Humanehancock...
To donate to my PayPal (thank you): paypal.me/humanehancock
Purchase Animal Riots clothing: animalriots.com/
Sign up to take a vegan challenge: vbcamp.org/humanehancock
Follow me on Instagram:
instagram.com/humanehancock
Follow me on Facebook:
facebook.com/humanehancockpage
0:00 - Introduction
0:48 - Veganism
3:10 - Transhumanism & The Abolitionist Project
7:43 - The Reproductive Revolution
12:13 - Public Perception
13:39 - Objections
16:46 - Wild Animal Suffering
