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"Brave New World? A Defence of Paradise-Engineering", BLTC Research, 1998
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[T]here is no fundamental biological reason why the human genome can't be rewritten to allow everyone to be "in" love with everyone else - if we should so choose. But simply loving each other will be miraculous enough; and will probably suffice. An empty religious piety can be transformed into a biological reality.

— David Pearce (philosopher)

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "[T]here is no fundamental biological reason why the human genome can't be rewritten to allow everyone to be "in" love with everyone else - if we should so choose. But simply loving each other will be miraculous enough; and will probably suffice. An empty religious piety can be transformed into a biological reality." in the context of ""Brave New World? A Defence of Paradise-Engineering", BLTC Research, 1998" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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David Pearce (philosopher)

About David Pearce (philosopher)

David Pearce (born April 1959) is a British philosopher and co-founder of the World Transhumanist Association, currently rebranded and incorporated as Humanity+, Inc., and a prominent figure within the transhumanism movement. He approaches ethical issues from a lexical negative utilitarian perspective.