Where does anticipation and surprise fit into it? I'm not saying I disagree... He could explain more though... I go to my search engine.. I have a generalized certainty or no certainly in what I'm looking for and I'm uncertain of what I will find, uncertain if the search term I used was sufficient. I push enter anticipating answers, then a list of uncertain links appear. I go through the links anticipating information satisfying enough for my appetite. Then repeat!
Surely its not uncertainty but the anticipation of pleasure? I can think of plenty of examples when uncertainty makes me uncomfortable, usually when I am anticipating displeasure from something. How did a neuroscientist miss that? Or maybe I've missed something...
I don't think this is always true, if you have a bad experience with texts (for example you are having a row with your partner and keep receiving negative text messages). You will not receive any pleasure from the uncertainty. I think you only receive pleasure if you associate the possibility of very positive outcomes with the thing you are uncertain about (for example; you ask an attractive person out on a date and the following text message you receive might be from them bringing good news)
Perhaps something was 'lost in animation', but involving the brain in this 'explanation' simply doesn't explain. It's irrelevant to understanding the pleasure of e-gadgets (or otherwise - the evidence for 'pleasure' is weak, as other comments show). So much of the inclusion of neuroscience (or neurospeculation, in this video) in pop-'psychological' discourse is of this ilk - an illustration of 'wiring' that seems explanatory but distracts from more intelligent understanding our experience.
Uncertainty makes fishing enjoyable. G.E.M. Skues wrote a short story about Mr. Theodore Castwell who, after death, finds himself doomed for eternity to catching 2 1/2 pound trout at every cast in the same pool. It isn't heaven.
To be honest, it's not like that all the time for me. Sometimes I get anxiety or I am generally bothered by texts, calls or whatever. It's probably my own "problem" though.
Where does anticipation and surprise fit into it? I'm not saying I disagree... He could explain more though... I go to my search engine.. I have a generalized certainty or no certainly in what I'm looking for and I'm uncertain of what I will find, uncertain if the search term I used was sufficient. I push enter anticipating answers, then a list of uncertain links appear. I go through the links anticipating information satisfying enough for my appetite. Then repeat!
KuDeGrasBonVoyage 1 week ago
Surely its not uncertainty but the anticipation of pleasure? I can think of plenty of examples when uncertainty makes me uncomfortable, usually when I am anticipating displeasure from something. How did a neuroscientist miss that? Or maybe I've missed something...
TerraFirma69 1 week ago
I don't think this is always true, if you have a bad experience with texts (for example you are having a row with your partner and keep receiving negative text messages). You will not receive any pleasure from the uncertainty. I think you only receive pleasure if you associate the possibility of very positive outcomes with the thing you are uncertain about (for example; you ask an attractive person out on a date and the following text message you receive might be from them bringing good news)
justinhalsall 1 week ago
Perhaps something was 'lost in animation', but involving the brain in this 'explanation' simply doesn't explain. It's irrelevant to understanding the pleasure of e-gadgets (or otherwise - the evidence for 'pleasure' is weak, as other comments show). So much of the inclusion of neuroscience (or neurospeculation, in this video) in pop-'psychological' discourse is of this ilk - an illustration of 'wiring' that seems explanatory but distracts from more intelligent understanding our experience.
InsideWork1 1 week ago
The dog and the bell LOL! Pavlov is a genious!
alejandrabalmar 1 week ago
Uncertainty makes fishing enjoyable. G.E.M. Skues wrote a short story about Mr. Theodore Castwell who, after death, finds himself doomed for eternity to catching 2 1/2 pound trout at every cast in the same pool. It isn't heaven.
phenast 1 week ago
I wouldnt call pleasure for me.... But anxiety.........
samsarafloever 1 month ago
To be honest, it's not like that all the time for me. Sometimes I get anxiety or I am generally bothered by texts, calls or whatever. It's probably my own "problem" though.
s3cco 1 month ago