pleasure · feeling
Ask PrometheusA feeling in a human that the human wants to have more of.
Pleasure (noun) means: A feeling in a human that the human wants to have more of. It emerges from feel, human, want: A feeling couples to wanting: the state itself makes the human want its continuation. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 17, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- A person laughs while eating a ripe mango, savoring the sweet juice dripping down their chin. everyday life
- Dopamine spikes in a rat's nucleus accumbens when it presses a lever to receive a sugar solution. neuroscience
- Visitors return repeatedly to the 'Infinity Mirrors' exhibit at the Hirshhorn Museum, smiling and clapping. art
Emergence
through: A feeling couples to wanting: the state itself makes the human want its continuation.
- positive valence
- reinforcement
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (232 steps)
- pleasureL17
- feelL11
- humanL16
- wantL6
- needL5
- stateL2
- differenceL1
- persistL1
- conditionL3
- objectL4
- offL2
- spaceL0
- differenceL1
- needL5
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
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Relations
| enables | want.desire | pleasure is what wanting points back at |