Avant, wol. XIII, nr 2, https://doi.org/10.26913/avant.202211
publikowane na licencji CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Piotr Litwin 
Instytut Filozofii
Uniwersytet Jagielloński
piotr.plitwin@gmail.com
Artur Gunia
Zakład Kognitywistyki, Instytut Filozofii,
Uniwersytet Jagielloński
artur.gunia@uj.edu.pl
Przyjęto 19 sierpnia 2021; zaakceptowano 27 lipca 2022; opublikowano 28 września 2022. Pełny tekst
Abstrakt: Celem artykułu jest analiza trwającej w środowisku filozoficznym debaty na temat możliwości wykorzystywania najnowszych osiągnięć naukowych z zakresu farmakologii, psychiatrii czy technologii informatycznej w zamiarze usprawniania sfery emocjonalnej człowieka. Perspektywa przedstawicieli ruchu transhumanistycznego uznaje, że wzmocnienia afektywne niosą ze sobą potencjał uwolnienia wszystkich świadomych istot od cierpienia oraz zapewnienia im szczęścia przez całe życie. W artykule analizowane są główne argumenty transhumanisty i filozofa Davida Pearce’a i jego programu Imperatywu Hedonistycznego. Następnie podejmuje się refleksję nad rolą i strukturą emocji w ludzkim życiu, a także nad warunkami, które musiałyby spełnić środki umożliwiające osiągnięcie „permanentnego uśmiechu”, to jest nad metodami wzmocnienia afektywnego, które ograniczałyby negatywne oddziaływanie emocji na jednostkę. Analiza teoretycznych założeń projektu transhumanistycznego zostaje rozszerzona o przegląd obecnie dostępnych środków farmakologicznych oraz informatycznych, które przyczyniałyby się do wzmocnienia afektywnego człowieka i innych istot świadomych. Prowadzona analiza skupiać będzie się na dwóch rzędach ludzkiej sfery afektywnej: (1) emocjach i (2) metaemocjach. Wykazuje się, że wszelkie interwencje transhumanistyczne powinny uwzględniać kwestię autentyczności sądów wydawanych na poziomie metaemocjonalnym.
Słowa kluczowe: wzmocnienie afektywne; wzmocnienie poznawcze; transhumanizm; substancje psychoaktywne; Imperatyw Hedonistyczny
Permanent smile – analysis of affective enhancement measures and tools
Abstract: The aim of the article is to analyze the ongoing philosophical debate about the possibility of using the latest scientific achievements in the field of pharmacology, psychiatry, or information technology to improve the emotional sphere of a human being. According to the transhumanist movement affective enhancement has the potential to liberate all conscious beings from suffering and to provide them with happiness for a lifetime. In the article, we analyze the main arguments of the transhumanist and philosopher David Pearce and his program about Hedonic Imperative. We propose to reflect on the role and structure of emotions in our lives, as well as on the features enabling the achievement of a “permanent smile”, that is, on the methods of affective enhancement that would limit the negative impact of emotions on an individual person. Besides we do a review of the presently available pharmacological and information technology solutions which could lay the foundations for the affective enhancement of man and other conscious beings. Main analysis, we will focus on two levels of our affective structure: (1) emotions and (2) meta-emotions in order to demonstrate that any transhumanist intervention should take into consideration the authenticity of our meta-emotional judgements.
Keywords: affective enhancement; cognitive enhancement; transhumanism; psychoactive substances; Hedonistic Imperative
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