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The Far Out Initiative - Ending Suffering for All Beings

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The Far Out Initiative is a Public Benefit Biotechnology Company focused on developing technological solutions to the problem of involuntary suffering in human and non-human animals. We endeavor to accelerate the rate at which new – and old – scientific discoveries are translated into scalable altruistic interventions that can be rapidly implemented and disseminated through market-based strategies. In 2019, scientists discovered a woman with a new form of congenital pain insensitivity that left her virtually immune not only to physical pain but to psychological pain as well. Unlike other forms of congenital pain insensitivity, her condition left her blissfully unaffected by fear, sadness, anger, anxiety, and grief. She is also free of the frequent injuries and early childhood self-mutilation behaviors that make other forms of congenital pain insensitivity so pathological and dangerous. Her pain-sensing neurons work, but she does not generate intrinsically unpleasant experiential qual

The Far Out Initiative A public benefit research organization · est. 2023 The cessation of chronic suffering is an engineering problem. We are building the science of valence — the discipline that targets the brain circuits that maintain unnecessary suffering, and modulates them with focused ultrasound through windows in the skull. Read the Manifesto → The Full Canon There are moments, and it is only a matter of five or six seconds, when you feel the presence of the eternal harmony, fully attained. Dostoevsky · The Demons 01 The Thesis Suffering is the collapse of perceived viable trajectories

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