This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with David Pearce, the philosopher who wrote The Hedonistic Imperative in 1995 and co-founded the World Transhumanist Association with Nick Bostrom in 1998.
In this conversation, David argues that the pleasure-pain axis discloses the world's inbuilt metric of disvalue, and that our overriding ethical obligation as a species is to phase out the biology of suffering throughout the living world and replace it with information-sensitive gradients of bliss. He also explains why he believes phenomenal binding, not consciousness per se, is what makes animal nervous systems special, and why he regards digital mind as an oxymoron.
We talk about non-materialist physicalism, the binding problem, whether any value exists beyond valence, reprogramming predators, and what he hopes the builders of AGI will prioritize.
The interview is the thirty-fourth installment of The Trajectory's second series, Worthy Successor, where we explore the kinds of posthuman intelligences that deserve to steer the future beyond humanity.
This episode referred to the following other essays and resources:
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