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223. Paul Bloom on the pleasures of suffering and the meaning of life

The Michael Shermer Show

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The Negative Bias

The negativey bias, in which a painful things hurt twice as much as pleasure things feel good, is an adaptation with obvious implications. Itt gets our attention, and we're super focused on it. And maybe there's some pleasure in that process of being superattentive and focused, rather than bored. Let me read to you quote from david hume that i think your research puts into proper perspective. Hume writes, reason is and ought only to be the slave of the passions and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. Is this congenial to your view? Oh, absolutely yes.

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