In Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" he described a society that looks startlingly like ours: people who live for pleasure and distraction, aided by consciousness altering drugs that keep them happy. Should we engineer human systems to achieve a similar goal, or is there more to what we should be striving for? What state(s) of consciousness should we be trying to maximize? Is there a higher level of consciousness achievable by pharmaceutical or practical (e.g. meditation) means?