Conundrum's video: Complexity of Suffering and Pleasure

Let's dispense with some common misconceptions of pain and pleasure to get a more accurate understanding of these categories that are the basis of many modern systems of morality. Pain-pleasure is not a simple continuum of experience. Pleasure is not merely the cessation of pain. There is more complexity in the emotional landscape. Full text on my blog: https://figmentsofspeculation.wordpress.com/2020/02/02/complexity-of-suffering-and-pleasure/ Connect with me on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/WackyConundrum to stay in touch. And check out my blog "Figments of Speculation": https://figmentsofspeculation.wordpress.com/ References, Links, Further Reading: Motivational systems Approach and avoidance motivation. Moss, S. http://www.sicotests.com/psyarticle.asp?id=60 Avoidance-Approach - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/avoidance-approach Motivation to Pursue Dreams and Hopes: Understanding the Brain's Reward System. University of California Television (UCTV). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD-eQ8Poc-k McNaughton, N., DeYoung, C. G., & Corr, P. J. (2016). Approach/avoidance. In Neuroimaging personality, social cognition, and character (pp. 25-49). Academic Press. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/79Reward system29/3a3f230cec73f580b40ff2f64048959aa848.pdf Affect processing systems Reward system. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reward_system Pain and pleasure. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_and_pleasure Reinforcement sensitivity theory. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement_sensitivity_theory The Neurobiology of Punishment. Ben Seymour. Tania Singer. Raymond J. Dolan. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6432468_The_Neurobiology_of_Punishment Brain stimulation Electrical brain stimulation. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_brain_stimulation Sean A. Guillory, Krzysztof A. Bujarski. Exploring emotions using invasive methods: review of 60 years of human intracranial electrophysiology. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Volume 9, Issue 12, December 2014, Pages 1880–1889. https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/9/12/1880/1616525 Emotions Are Happiness and Suffering Symmetric? Brian Tomasik. https://reducing-suffering.org/happiness-suffering-symmetric/ Thomas Metzinger. Suffering. https://www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb05philosophie/files/2013/04/Metzinger_suffering_penultimate.pdf The Primacy of Suffering. Conundrum. https://youtu.be/B4ToU06_I0k Tags