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Originally Posted by ZHereford  So you're saying there's no point in even discussing pleasure and pain. According to you and SR it's a moot point.
Not everyone subscribes to the SR model of reality so for those who don't, I say values and principles guide behavior more than pain/pleasure. |
I actually don't subscribe to SR either - I do believe in an objective reality, but I also believe that there is a perceptual buffer between that reality and the mind, and this perception of events and circumstances is the main cause of behaviour - you will be pushed away from what you mentally tag as 'pain' and go towards what you mentally tag as 'pleasure'. Although what is pain and what is pleasure is, in my eyes, a moot point, I think the drivers of human behaviour are always worth discussing
Out of curiosity, care to elaborate on your values/principles model?