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Paul Bloom on Psychological Hedonism,

Philosophy Bites

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Would You Put Yourself in a Machine?

i think it's like johnsteme's torc experiment. Is it better to be a happy pig, snorting around in your sty, rutting and eating, basically getting pleasure from life you're well fed, or sad? And we often act that way. But there are deferitely people who are pleasure seekers, and they will take the drugs that give them the bars even if it causes a physiological harm long term. They don't seem movilely concerned with other people psychopaths in the kind of non hollywood sense. I like that. For everybody, there our limits. We saylets lets muck around with real life and bear to suffering anxiety. It's up

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