Pleasure and Pain

From: Ka-Ping Yee (ping@foresight.org)
Date: Tue Aug 19 1997 - 02:14:47 MDT

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Darren Reynolds wrote:
>
> Right. Whereas in humans, the internal difference between
> pleasure and pain is ... er, what is the internal difference
> in humans exactly?

Sarah Marr wrote:
>
> Wait a minute, there's a difference between pleasure and pain?

I thought there was. My working definition is that pleasure
is something you want more of and pain is something you don't.

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