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Re:Bullshit-sensitivity predicts prosocial behavior by foldr on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @06:38AM (#17765008)
Ok -- we must have such different internal lives that I'm willing to believe that your imagined pains actually hurt you.

Responding to your edit:

>whether there is even a difference between feeling happy and “being” happy.

That's not the question. The question is whether there's a difference between feeling happy and imagining yourself feeling happy.

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Re:Bullshit-sensitivity predicts prosocial behavior by malloryerik on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @07:03AM (#17765136)
The difference is maybe analogous to laughing uncontrollably and imagining yourself laughing uncontrollably. Imagining yourself laughing uncontrollably can lead you to feel more ready to laugh, but it is not the same.

If you answer, well laughter is physical while pain is mental, then I will ask you how that is a genuine dichotomy. The mental representation of unexperienced pain is also, in truth, a physical phenomenon since the mind is a physical experience, but the mental representation of pain is not the same as experienced pain.

But pain or pleasure, sadness or happiness from some imagined event, yes, that's real and it's what the original sentence intended to say, I believe.

Edit: This was meant as a reply to addicted rather than foldr...

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