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Again I think Ill go to a post rather than a comment. In the wikipedia article on hedonism, the abolutionist movement is mentioned, Not abolutionist in the sense of the freeing of slaves, but as a philosophical movement, part of Hirams interest, transhumanism. But it touches on my favorite area nudging nature to improve our well being. From the Wikipedia article on Aism: Abolitionism was primarily inspired by Jeremy Bentham’s utilitarian ethic. People have been found in studies to achieve a baseline happiness, sometimes called the hedonic treadmill, a pre-determined happiness set point that a person will return to throughout their lives. This set point is regardless of their personal income. According to evolutionary theory, humans evolved through natural selection and follow genetic imperatives that seek to maximize reproduction,[6] (not happiness). Abolitionism requires as a premise that emotions have a physically manipulable, not spiritual, source, such that by altering the human brain we can fundamentally change the way that humans experience life. Scientific advancements Recent laboratory breakthroughs have bolstered the idea that happiness is physically based and can be influenced through scientific methods. In 2006, Guillaume Lucas of McGill University and his colleagues published a study on the biochemistry of depression and the development of depression resistance.[8] Mice born without a gene coding for the expression of a potassium channel found in depression-related neurons have resistance to depression (as tested by standard behavioural measures in the rodent model) comparable to that of naive mice treated with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs).
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 18:45:20 +0000

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