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OK, so presumably if the neurosurgeon stimulates those spots, I feel pleasure? How do the spots work?
by 0xDEAFBEAD 3y ago
OK, so presumably if the neurosurgeon stimulates those spots, I feel pleasure?
How do the spots work?
- jncfhnb 3y agoYou’re going to need a deeper expert to go much further than this, but it’s basically a mapping of the sensory inputs to pleasurable responses. Many of which are hard coded into the brain’s design. Like sugar. Drugs are probably better suited to mess with these than surgeons. I think you’re asking though if something is intrinsically pleasurable to an organism. The answer is no. But all life has generally evolved to sensibly reward useful things and discourage bad things. So most brains are designed to interpret specific inputs as pleasurable. It’s not inconceivable that with advanced technology we could design an organism that experienced pleasure from whatever sensory inputs.