- 0.1 The
Naturalisation of Heaven
- 0.2
Saving Vehicles With Bad Drivers
- 0.3
Humans Are Not Rats
- 0.4
Life In Dopaminergic Overdrive
- 1.0
Sabotage At The Mill
- 1.1
The Biological Program
- 1.2
Pumping Up The Volume
- 1.3
The Civilising Neurotransmitter
- 1.4
The Cardinal Importance Of Delayed Gratification
- 1.5
The Molecular Genetics Of Paradise
- 1.6
The Re-encephalisation Of Emotion
- 1.7
How Could Anything Be So Good?
- 1.8
All We Need Is Love?
- 1.9
The Taste Of Depravity
- 1.10
On The Misguided Romanticisation Of Feline Psychopaths
- 1.11
The Last Twisted Molecule On Earth?
- 1.12 The
Persistence Of Hard-Core Porn
- 1.13
The Growing Pleasures Of Homunculi
- 1.14
Post-Perceptual Consciousness?
- 2.0
The Psychology Of Armchair Hedonism
- 2.1 How
To Contemplate An Introspective Void
- 2.2
The Importance Of Banality
- 2.3
Vacuous Desires
- 2.4
A Dirty Window On The Soul
- 2.5
Let's Get Rational
- 2.6
The Morality Of Happiness
- 2.7
Why Be Negative?
- 2.8
The Moral Panacea
- 2.9 The
Significance Of An Empirical Correlation
- 2.10 A
Tough-Minded Scientist Replies
- 2.11
The Selection Of Mysterious Reds
- 2.12
The Formal Successes Of Scientific Triumphalism
- 2.13
The Naturalisation Of Value
- 2.14
Four Deadly Objections?
- 2.15
Alone Amongst The Zombies
- 2.16
The Perils Of Idle Scepticism
- 2.17
The Price Of Inner Demons
- 2.18
Can We All Be Really Good?
- 2.19
Equivocal Values
- 2.20
Good Vibrations: The Value Of String
- 3.0
Our Emotional Future
- 3.1
Hedonism After The War
- 3.2
On Why We Need Better Drug Pushers
- 3.3
Good Code Gets Better
- 3.4 The
Death-Spasms Of Peripheralism
- 3.5
And Yet It Still Grinds
- 3.6
The Technology Of Shop-Soiled Utopias
- 3.7
Living In The Real World
- 4.0
...impossible because happiness depends on contrast with sadness...
- 4.1 ...brain
too complex...negative feedback mechanisms...
- 4.2
...we'd just die out...gruesome fate of intra-cranially self-stimulating
rats...
- 4.3 ...manifesto
flawed by reductionist approach to the human soul...
- 4.4 ...unanticipated
side-effects...thalidomide...
- 4.5
...would need widespread animal-testing...inconsistent with the
manifesto's animal welfarism...
- 4.6
...unnatural...
- 4.7
...perpetual happiness is boring...need for variety...
- 4.8 ...happiness
should be rationally justifiable...
- 4.9
...to be forced into chemically-driven happiness is wrong...false
happiness...freedom to be unhappy is important...
- 4.10
...would turn us into junkies...
- 4.11
...one can sometimes like being sad...too precious to lose...
- 4.12
...would eliminate personal development...lead to stasis...
- 4.13
...why not just get high...?
- 4.14
...no more Newtons, Picassos, Beethovens...end of mankind's intellectual
progress...
- 4.15
...makes mockery of current values and life-projects...too absurd
to warrant serious debate...
- 4.16
...would leave us helpless... manipulable by ruling elites...
- 4.17
...sheer escapism...the importance of staying in touch with reality...
- 4.18
...wouldn't be me...one is defined by one's sorrows as much as
joys...
- 4.19
...selfish distraction from what matters...helping the poor in
the Third World comes first...
- 4.20
...affront to human dignity...
- 4.21 ...track-record
of utopianism is disastrous...terrible crimes committed on assumption
the end justifies the means...
- 4.22
...would undermine the basis of all human relationships...
- 4.23
...might lead to (post-)humanity getting irreversibly stuck...
- 4.24
... emphasis on mood-lifting drugs is disproportionate...easy
to misinterpret...
- 4.25 ...abolitionist
project presupposes a utilitarian ethic...collapses if utilitarianism
is rejected...
- 4.26
...will never be a Post-Darwinian Transition... there will always
be selection pressure...
- 4.27
...paradise-engineering is impossible...not evolutionarily stable...
- 4.28
...contradiction...abolitionism can't be reconciled with an absence
of compulsion...
- 4.29
...why invoke nanotechnology; isn't genetic engineering enough...?
- 4.30
..."pushy" parents will choose genotypes for children who are
smart, driven and successful rather than happy...
- 4.31
...persistence of "natural" reproducers with Darwinian genotypes
means that suffering won't be abolished...
- 5.0
Puppet-Masters Without Strings
- 5.1
Could Life Really Have A Happy Ending?
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