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David Pearce

David Pearce Quotes

Total quotes: 4

David Pearce

Birthname

Birthday: December 5, 1967

Birthplace: United Kingdom

Political Parties: Libertarian Transhumanism

Nationality: British

Occupations: Philosopher

Profesisonal Interests: Transhumanism, Pharmacology, Biopsychiatry, Genetic Engineering, Nanotechnology, Neurosurgerym, Drugs, Evolution, Hedonistic Transhumanism, Ethics, Animal Rights

Total quotes: 4

“It's been said that when in love we find it astonishing that it is possible to love someone else so much, because normally we love each other so little.”

— David Pearce, The Hedonistic Imperative

Tagged: Love, How Humans Are, Quote of the Moment

“Even the most virile of imaginations can apprehend in only the barest and formal sense the ravishing splendor that lies ahead.”

— David Pearce, The Hedonistic Imperative

Tagged: Secular Versions of Redemption Through Drugs/Genetic Engineering, Lack of Imagination, Where Words Fail, When Words Fail

“What grounds are there for predicting that suffering and malaise will be replaced by gradients of genetically preprogrammed well-being? When, if ever, might paradise-engineering become practical politics?”

— David Pearce, The Hedonistic Imperative

Tagged: Genetic Engineering, Politics of Transhumanism, Futurology

“To escape from the hedonic treadmill we must first sabotage a small but vicious set of negative feedback mechanisms.”

— David Pearce, The Hedonistic Imperative

Tagged: Overcoming, Overriding Our Emotions

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Birthday:	December 5, 1967
Birthplace:	United Kingdom
Political Parties:	Libertarian Transhumanism
Nationality:	British
Occupations:	Philosopher
Profesisonal Interests:	Transhumanism, Pharmacology, Biopsychiatry, Genetic Engineering, Nanotechnology, Neurosurgerym, Drugs, Evolution, Hedonistic Transhumanism, Ethics, Animal Rights