Brain scientists believe that the future of the world is in their hands, because one day they will be able to quickly and accurately “turn on” or “turn off” the centers responsible for pleasure and pain.
By stimulating the brain, it will be possible to give people what they want or, conversely, not to give. Thus, you can erase the interval between desire and its fulfillment, or minimize human aspirations, bringing them to a certain common denominator; to make people experience the same that Tesla, Rembrandt, Beethoven experienced, only without unnecessary difficulties, without going through the path of science or creativity, to immediately get satisfaction "on a silver platter."
If a thousand robots working in a factory can produce more cars per day than their human counterparts, then the human need for work and self-realization can be eliminated with the help of drugs or electromagnetic stimulation.
Such problems as boredom, fatigue, disappointment, despondency, confusion, depression, the search for the meaning of life … could be easily solved …
Kent Berridge, professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Michigan, has identified areas of the brain where stimulation enhances feelings of pleasure. Previously, it was thought that dopamine causes pleasure, but now more and more scientists are inclined to believe that this is not the case.
Researchers around the world are now working to find true "generators" of pleasure to treat depression and other diseases, but such discoveries may affect the formation of society as a whole. If people learn to drown out their ambitions with a "happiness pill", they will stop striving for achievements and discoveries.
It would not be surprising if “the right to experience pleasure” would one day be included in the list of civil rights. Of course, it is possible that there will still be those whose suppressed desire to follow their calling will still break through, but it is better not to allow such social experiments at all.
As Aldous Huxley once wrote to George Orwell:
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