🧵 Ultimate goal of scientific advancement

Anonymous at Fri, 17 May 2024 17:36:42 UTC No. 16180161

Comic related is unironically what all human progress should strive towards: figuring out what physical state correlates with the conscious experience of happiness, and then transforming as much of the universe as possible into that state. We can directly experience positive emotions as good unto themselves, with all other things we value being valued because of the positive emotional experience they bring about (even an aescetic derives a unique form of pleasure from their asceticism), so positive emotional state demands its maximization as the ultimate good.