>hedonism
why not hook yourself 24/7 on a perfect concoction of dopamine-releasing drugs and then, once your brain is fried, kill yourself painlessly?
>inb4 muh hedonic treadmill
Hedonism
Henry Gonzalez
Nolan Brooks
not lit
>inb4 muh nagle
You aren't here to discuss literature
Levi Cook
>why not hook yourself 24/7 on a perfect concoction of dopamine-releasing drugs and then, once your brain is fried, kill yourself painlessly?
Sounds good to me famalam
Benjamin Williams
I don't have high enough confidence that the other things I value, or that are otherwise a part of my identity i would lose from this situation, I really only care about because they're instrumental to "pure pleasure" because of some poorly developed folk psychology
Noah Phillips
>implying I'm not
Gavin Cox
"its all just brain chemicals man" is not a sufficient explanation here, even if you're fully committed to naturalism, physicalism about the mind, etc. The complete removal of all possible dissatisfaction in favor of a state of blank un interrupted bliss seems like it would require the annihilation of my consciousness as I understand it. We can avoid these issues by swapping to the "experience machine" version of this thought experiment -- but it seems like in order to enjoy the machine the part of me that understood it was just a dream would have to be destroyed.
Camden Myers
>implying that the mind lives in the brain
Jaxon Watson
what
Nathan Rogers
>speaking of dopamine
>tfw society only turned against smoking because dopamine released by cigarettes results in less compulsion for alternative dopamine releasing activities like shopping, thereby reducing consumer expenses
literally the moment econobergsteins noticed this everything flipped.
Cameron Cox
> the "experience machine" version of this thought experiment
Uhhh have you ever taken dxm?