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Re: argome321 (Post 5936663)
Quote:I have lost all my feelings of pleasure due to anhedonia which is a negative symptom of schizoprhenia. I really do believe that pleasure is the only good thing in life. As for the reason why people wish to feel numb, it would be because being numb is better than being in a state of suffering. But still, you would be in a neutral state and not in a good state if you didn't have your feelings of pleasure.
This claim is debatable and mere speculative nor scientific. Because many people who get constantly stoned are not truly in pain, they just prefer to be numb.
Quote:Now there is the moral version of good and bad and there is the feeling version of good and bad. So even though it could very well be morally good to have a balance in life and other things, without our feelings of pleasure, then we would instead be living for something else that is good in life separate from our own conscious brains. But since our conscious is what defines our very lives since it is the very thing that makes us alive in the first place, then it all comes back to our conscious defining our own lives as good. Therefore, since pleasure is the only good conscious experience, then us living for other good things in life without our feelings of pleasure wouldn't make our lives good at all.
First Let's both agree we know the difference between moral good and bad and labeling what feels good or bad to us so we don't repeat ourselves.
Saying that, what makes us feel good or bad is still subjective and has nothing to do what is truly good for us objectively.
Eating ice cream makes me feel good, I have a caving for ice cream, that doesn't make it truly good for me.
People who enjoy pain, who love to be masochistic, who enjoy doling out pain and suffering to others is that truly a god thing in life?
This is what I meant by interpretation. The brain can let us know what pleases us, and that is on an individual basis, and it can not tell us if it truly good when it comes to what is truly good in life.
And to construct a philosophy on this idea that pleasure is the truly good thing in life, as the sole purpose for one's existence, is limiting one experiences in life.
it may prove that there is another thing, that has nothing to do with pleasurable, that is truly needed more so than pleasure, like learning how to survive. Like education. Learning the tools of survival isn't always pleasurable but necessary and in most cases, if not all, a truly good thing in life.