Wirehead Skeptics
The experimenter's lever-pressing rat
with electrodes wired into the fibres of its pleasure centers was discovered back in 1954. The rat will indulge in frenzied bouts
of intra-cranial self-stimulation. It will keep pressing for days on end in preference to food, sleep or even sex.
It is apparently physiologically incapable of becoming bored, or tolerant to, the rodent equivalent of Heaven.
In the year 2012 many more subtly-engineered human counterparts of the euphoric rat are ultimately using
their personal freedom to exercise what is, to them, a legitimate life-style choice,
becoming a WIREHEAD!
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