> Pleasure and pain are not different directions along the same vector. They are two entirely different vectors.

Are you proposing that pleasure and pain are unrelated?

This is a vapid question. If you have something to say, just say it.

Wow.

It's waking up to the smell of bacon, and then 20 minutes later your nose blind to it. It is putting sugar and salt in everything and then having to add more and more to get the punch of either.

Libertines, and hedonists chasing ever growing excess because they have to to feel.

It's the relief of an ice pack on a sore shoulder vs the cold of snow in your jacket.

It's the spoiled rich kid who appreciates nothing because they have everything.

There is no pleasure with out pain. There is no point, without a counter point. It is why addicts chase every increasing amounts of their addictions...

Please enlighten me.

I am interested in learning how the two vectors interact with each other if at all.

Perhaps model the relationship with some equations.