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Re:How to Think about Pleasure by rsj_hn on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @06:39AM (#27602933)
If you are as comfortable as your peers, then you are not at a disadvantage when competing for mates, and neither are your own offspring, so yeah, it's a big deal. We have evolved with the understanding that we need to compete with peers in order to be able to pass our genes on. We are not competing against trees or even our former selves, just against peers.
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Re:How to Think about Pleasure by pontifier on Monday June 28, 2021 @02:14PM (#27665453)
I feel I'm naturally a problem solver, and I noticed that I wasted a good amount of brain power thinking about things like unconventional air conditioning and bug control because I couldn't use power or use my building. Unconventional bathing because I had no running water(look up strigil),etc.

It wasn't productive, because I can't sit around re-inventing things that work good enough in modern society.

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Re:How to Think about Pleasure by dhimes on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @10:30AM (#27604957)
Yeah but sometimes when the pain in my arm causes me to wake at night I don't really give a darn what anybody else is feeling. I just want the pain in my arm to stop.
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