
223. Paul Bloom on the pleasures of suffering and the meaning of life
The Michael Shermer Show
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Is It Indistinguishable?
"It's a kind of a puzzle which i don't answer. Why the facial expression use to communicate different things, r are indistinguishable," he says. Pa rogsi lists what he calls benign massocism, no level forms of pain that we get pleasure from. And one of his things on his list is massage pain. "In some way, that's a very everyday example - you go for a massage and it hurts, but you like it and am and that's justinteresting, you know, it hurts."
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