| correct me if i am wrong but the original article said nothing of dopaminergic overdrive or the complete abolution of dissatisfaction. what it was talking about was preventing suffering. I may be uncomfortable in my bed tonight and this may drive me to want to turn over, but it can hardly be said that i will suffer as a result of this discomfort. Verily, I am felling hungry just now and, as has been said in a previous post, hunger is a dissatisfaction which drives us to want to eat. But I am in no way suffering as a result of this hunger. For a human to be engineered in such a way as to never suffer it is not a requisit that they can never feel dissatisfaction (ie. hunger, tactile discomfort, etc.), but simply that these feelings can never reach such a state of magnification that the person experiencing them can be said to be suffering.
Furthermore, it is apparent to me that humans, psycologically, cannot function healthily in the constraints of civilized society. So, if nothing else, it surley would be the moral thing to suppliment evolution in such a way as to make us able to deal with the stresses of life, which are for the most part unavoidable. |