A new brain implant automatically detects and kills pain in real time

Post by nceqs3 » Wed, Jul 07, 2021, 2:11 AM UTC

bserge wrote: post #70

jacobwilliamroy wrote: post #17

Yesterday I visited a friend with late stage cancer. He hasn't eaten or drunk anything for a few days. He doesn't really talk or move around anymore. I was just thinking a system like this would be perfect for him, if he could activate his morphine pump every time he feels pain. It's hard for his family to tell when they need to push the morphine button right now because he's non-verbal.

Late stage meaning incurable? If that's the prognosis, why not just end their suffering?

Post by chillwaves » Wed, Jul 07, 2021, 2:26 AM UTC

educaysean wrote: post #101

imwillofficial wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Leave it to modern man to think we can rearchitect something so fundamental as pain and pleasure in the human experience without disastrous results.

Let's think about the internet. Let's think about how it enables us to achieve instant communication all around the globe and freely share and distribute knowledge too great to hold in one's brain. I'd say the modern men are more than capable of overcoming biological barriers once thought to be fundamentally impossible to achieve. It might be a fairly rough road to get there, but I'm certain our understanding of how…

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jul 07, 2021, 2:42 AM UTC

Sophistifunk wrote: post #142

nszceta wrote: post #62

The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life. The abolitionist project is hugely ambitious but technically feasible. It is also instrumentally rational and morally urgent. The metabolic pathways of pain and malaise evolved because they served the fitness of our genes in the ancestral environment. They will be replaced by a different sort of…

Whatever you're smoking, I'll take two.

Post by nradov » Wed, Jul 07, 2021, 3:09 AM UTC

nszceta wrote: post #62

The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life. The abolitionist project is hugely ambitious but technically feasible. It is also instrumentally rational and morally urgent. The metabolic pathways of pain and malaise evolved because they served the fitness of our genes in the ancestral environment. They will be replaced by a different sort of…

Post by BeetleB » Wed, Jul 07, 2021, 3:32 AM UTC

krm01 wrote: post #10

I wonder how healthy this actually is. Isn’t pain a signal the brain uses to alert you about a detected problem? Just eliminating the sensation of pain could mean your body would be unable to signal an issue that needs to be resolved.