normative

Pleasure Can Be Given Experiential Texture

Rather than mere dazed pleasure, well-being could be attached to experiential texture—aesthetic perception of beauty, scientific insight like Archimedes' flash of discovery, or genuine understanding of another person—producing states that are both ecstatically happy and rich in worthwhile informational content, far superior to the image of a junkie.

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Speaker

Nicholas Bostrom

Evidence Quote

If you imagined these spirits being ecstatically happy while contemplating beauty and truth and goodness, that already seems better than the junkie on the dirty, flea-infested mattress

Source

Purpose, Pleasure, and Meaning in a World Without Work (with Nicholas Bostrom)EconTalk
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:04:44 AM

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