For me, the most interesting part of our discussion is its ethical part. But ethical implications of the cybernetic, evolutionary, worldview is a hot matter of to-day. In my opinion, it is needed urgently in order to work out answers to the most pressing social problems resulting from the scientific revolution and human integration, which goes on whether we want this or not. For the hedonists I have a question to which I do not know the answer. Drugs is a painful problem already.
Drugs destroy thousands and thousands lives.
But suppose that tomorrow the science finds a way to stimulate the pleasure center in the brain in such a manner that your health is not ruined. By the logic of hedonism, all of us should press the stimulation pedal as that miserable rat in the well-known experiments. Add democracy to the equation. This will be the end of civilization and of the whole humanity. Because this civilization is global.