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Abolitionism
By Tone
2-22-06
Abolitionism is the premise of abolishing suffering in all sentient life through the use of future biotechnology. Understand that neural architecture and chemistry ultimately governs over state of consciousness. That is why one can take crack cocaine or heroin and instantly experience a profound sense of well-being that most likely no drug-naive human in history can even imagine. That is why wireheaded rats press a lever to stimulate the final pleasure pathways of their brains untill death from starvation.
Imagine a state of profound motivation, clear-mindedness, empathy and well-being, completely free of side effects and maintained as a constant. This is what future biotechnology shall endow sentient life with via modification of brain metabolic pathways such as the dopaminergic final pleasure pathways, serotogenic pathways and other brain mechanisms which govern over state of consciousness.
Because state of consciousness is a blank slate which shall be whatever its hardware instructs it to be, no objections to abolitionism can exist. if one raises any objections, e.g. "we would all become lazy as perfectly euphoric beings" or similar, it is simply a visualization of something other than the goal of abolitionism and thus irrelevant. There is no possible refute, merely a question of feasibility.
Furthermore, because of the fact that no matter what path one takes in life, be it lofty and spiritual of some sort, or simple and down to earth; no matter what experiences one has in life; no matter what thoughts or emotions one has, all humans ultimately exist within a same and constant end result: a state of consciousness with X amount of pain, Y amount of pleasure and thus Z amount of well-being. Therefore there is no other logical purpose to life other than Abolitionism, be achieved through future technology turned inward, or any other conceivable method and this too is irrefutable.
Note: i am not tone, i am simply posting an article of his that i saw...I DO HAVE PERMISSION TO POST THIS ARTICLE...TONE HAS GIVEN ME PERMISSION.
-TranceTunes
Abolitionism
By Tone
2-22-06
Abolitionism is the premise of abolishing suffering in all sentient life through the use of future biotechnology. Understand that neural architecture and chemistry ultimately governs over state of consciousness. That is why one can take crack cocaine or heroin and instantly experience a profound sense of well-being that most likely no drug-naive human in history can even imagine. That is why wireheaded rats press a lever to stimulate the final pleasure pathways of their brains untill death from starvation.
Imagine a state of profound motivation, clear-mindedness, empathy and well-being, completely free of side effects and maintained as a constant. This is what future biotechnology shall endow sentient life with via modification of brain metabolic pathways such as the dopaminergic final pleasure pathways, serotogenic pathways and other brain mechanisms which govern over state of consciousness.
Because state of consciousness is a blank slate which shall be whatever its hardware instructs it to be, no objections to abolitionism can exist. if one raises any objections, e.g. "we would all become lazy as perfectly euphoric beings" or similar, it is simply a visualization of something other than the goal of abolitionism and thus irrelevant. There is no possible refute, merely a question of feasibility.
Furthermore, because of the fact that no matter what path one takes in life, be it lofty and spiritual of some sort, or simple and down to earth; no matter what experiences one has in life; no matter what thoughts or emotions one has, all humans ultimately exist within a same and constant end result: a state of consciousness with X amount of pain, Y amount of pleasure and thus Z amount of well-being. Therefore there is no other logical purpose to life other than Abolitionism, be achieved through future technology turned inward, or any other conceivable method and this too is irrefutable.
Note: i am not tone, i am simply posting an article of his that i saw...I DO HAVE PERMISSION TO POST THIS ARTICLE...TONE HAS GIVEN ME PERMISSION.
-TranceTunes
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