![]() For as the genetic revolution in reproductive medicine unfolds, what might once have been the stuff of millennialist fantasy is set to become a scientifically feasible research program. Yet the ideas behind this manifesto may one day be regarded as intellectually trite - albeit today morally urgent. Yet all will share at least one common feature: a sublime and all-pervasive happiness. Such speculations may currently sound fantastical. ![]() The states of mind of our descendants are likely to be incomprehensibly diverse by comparison with today. Matter and energy will be sculpted into life-loving super-beings animated by gradients of well-being. Malaise will be replaced by the biochemistry of bliss. The biochemistry of everyday discontents will be genetically phased out too. "Physical" and "mental" pain alike are destined to disappear into evolutionary history. Over the next thousand years or so, the biological substrates of suffering will be eradicated completely. The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how nanotechnology and genetic engineering will eliminate aversive experience from the living world. " This manifesto combines far-fetched utopian advocacy with cold-headed scientific prediction. ![]()
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