From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sat Jun 02 2001 - 01:30:11 MDT
Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 6/1/2001 11:15:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> lcorbin@ricochet.net writes:
>
> <<
> Mitch and I guess that in general food and sex don't
> become boring, but Samantha and Adrian guess that they
> do. I now guess that it should have been obvious all
> along that it does get boring for some, but not for
> others. >>
> Maybe its just the Arc of Capability? If a being can create living galaxies,
> populated with trillions of space-faring beings, then food and sex may end up
> being a poor third.
Or if one runs into the downsides which are the flip sides of
some of these more common pleasures and notes how long they last
and what they do and do not bring, perhaps one starts looking a
bit elsewhere.
> On the other hand, being who I am, genetics, physiology, experiences, I have
> trouble visualizing someone slamming their hand on a table and saying to
> themselves: "Hey! Less screwing and food, instead, I am going create an
> entire computer language."
>
Been there, done that. :-)
> These activities are NOT mutually exclusive, yet the idea that one can find
> something more satisfying (what is the neurobiology of satisfaction?) the
> food or sex, seems beyond my personal arc of capability.
There is a lot I have found more satisfying than food or sex.
But to each their own.
- samantha
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