by Hedonic Treader on 2011-11-20T05:36:00
Thanks for this link. It's always interesting to hear Singer. I find it a bit unfortunate though that many recent interviews are mostly concerned with his well-known views. I'd be curious about his take on some other topics discussed here, such as wild animal suffering, the ethics of colonizing the galaxy, the possibility of sentient algorithms, technological hedonic enhancement or a formal value metric based on abstractions from neuroscience.
"The abolishment of pain in surgery is a chimera. It is absurd to go on seeking it... Knife and pain are two words in surgery that must forever be associated in the consciousness of the patient."
- Dr. Alfred Velpeau (1839), French surgeon