David Pearce is a British philosopher who promotes the abolition of suffering in all sentient life. A philosopher is a person who thinks deeply regarding people, society, the world, and/or the universe. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Sentience is the capacity for basic consciousness -- the ability to feel or perceive, not necessarily including the faculty of self-awareness. ...

Pearce's views are most prominently presented in The Hedonistic Imperative, a manifesto in which he outlines how technologies such as genetic engineering, nanotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and neurosurgery could potentially eliminate all forms of unpleasant experience. The Hedonistic Imperative is a manifesto by David Pearce outlining the goals of an endeavor to use genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and neuroscience to eliminate suffering in all sentient life. ... A manifesto is a public declaration of principles and intentions, often political in nature. ... An autoluminograph from 1986 of a glowing transgenic tobacco plant bearing the luciferase gene of the firefly, illustrating the possibilities of genetic engineering. ... Nanotechnology comprises technological developments on the nanometer scale, usually 0. ... Pharmacology (in Greek: pharmacon is drug, and logos is science) is the study of how chemical substances interfere with living systems. ... Old German engraving depicting a trepanation, an ancient and still performed neurosurgical procedure Neurosurgery is the surgical discipline focused on treating those central and peripheral nervous system diseases amenable to mechanical intervention. ...

Pearce was co-founder (with Nick Bostrom) of the World Transhumanist Association as well as co-founder (with Pablo Stafforini, Sean Henderson, and Jaime Savage) and honorary president of the Abolitionist Society. He is currently the director of BLTC Research. Nick Bostrom (Boström in the original Swedish) is a philosopher at the University of Oxford, and known for his work on the anthropic principle. ... The World Transhumanist Association is an international non-profit organization membership organization which advocates the ethical use of technology to expand human capacities. ... Pablo Stafforini is a postgraduate student of philosophy at the University of Oxford and a transhumanist activist notable for having coined the term anarcho-transhumanism in 2003 and written on this political philosophy, and for having co-founded the Abolitionist Society and the Argentine Transhumanist Association. ... The Abolitionist Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to the elimination of sentient suffering by means of re-engineering the brain. ...

Bibliography

• Why Does Anything Exist?
• The Good Drug Guide
• Future Opioids
• The Post-Darwinian Transition
• The Hedonistic Imperative
• Abolitionism and Buddhism
• Smart Drugs 2 - A Review
• The Wired Society
• Cosmic Consciousness for Tough Minds
• Critique of Huxley's "Brave New World"
• Utopian Surgery : Early arguments against anaesthesia in surgery, dentistry and childbirth
• Aiming for An All Time High
• Utopian Pharmacology : Mental Health in the Third Millennium MDMA and Beyond

External link

• HedWeb - David Pearce's home page