A_Muse_Mint101: Is pleasure, for the sake of pleasure alone, an evolutionary dead-end?
Is pleasure sought from the purpose of being pleased 'wrong/disadvantageous' and pleasure brought from the purpose of aiding and supporting 'right/advantageous'?
FistOfStone: when something is done for the sake of something else, is the something else sought for its own sake or for the sake of something else? you can't have an infinite regress, ultimately all ends terminate in what is sought for its own sake, and this applies to dinos as well as doctoral candidates
Your first question [A_Muse_Mint101] is legitimate, and interesting. The second is a meaningless word soup of confusion, as is the whole of [FistOfStone]’s contribution; distractions from the original point.
Crumpets: Hey Muse. I don't think so. Why was it pleasurable in the first place, if not to bring some evolutionary advantage? Only certain – modern – avenues for pleasure are damaging and that's because evolution hasn't ironed those out yet and we've sought to prevent that happening.
Aiding and supporting being 'right' may come from altruism and behavioural theories in which you protect others out of implicit or indirect self-interest. Not sure what you mean by the former.
Is pleasure sought from the purpose of being pleased 'wrong/disadvantageous' and pleasure brought from the purpose of aiding and supporting 'right/advantageous'?
Just musing.
Your first question [A_Muse_Mint101] is legitimate, and interesting. The second is a meaningless word soup of confusion, as is the whole of [FistOfStone]’s contribution; distractions from the original point.
Aiding and supporting being 'right' may come from altruism and behavioural theories in which you protect others out of implicit or indirect self-interest. Not sure what you mean by the former.