[FRIAM] Could this possibly be true?

[Marcus Daniels]

Does all conscious (even synthetic) life need to be driven by a pleasure motive?   This seems to be Nick’s claim.   I expect the way this argument plays out is that, e.g., altruism is defined to “feel good”.  It is tautological.

On Sep 16, 2021, at 12:22 PM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:



some of us might be writing only to hear ourselves gumflap?

Pfffft!  All of us are and all of us aren’t.

For my own case, I am writing here to develop my thinking, so that it may someday coalesce into something that I publish, with, or without, others.   That that enterprise is not entirely nugatory is evident in my writing which is both stable and evolving and usually does involve others.

I stipulate that you all may be being forced to serve in a cause you may not have signed up for.  I guess this is the point where a glen would say, “Live with it!”

n

Nick Thompson
ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com<mailto:ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com>
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

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On 9/16/21 10:35 AM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com<mailto:thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:
Just so’s you know,

I took it from this email thread, where it pretty much stood alone.

And remember.  Y ou (we) aren’t just writing to one another.  You (we) are writing to 300 other people.

And according to Glen a few threads in the weft-weave back, some of us might be writing only to hear ourselves gumflap?   I think that (his characterization or my characterization of his characterization or both) might be hyperbolic.



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