How Pleasure Works {ReadingNotes}

How Pleasure Works by Paul Bloom - ISBN 0393066320 - W. W. Norton & Company June 2010

Motivation

Desiring to understand my own behavior to be less prone to manipulation but also facilitate collaboration with others.

Pre-reading model

Draw a schema (using PmGraphViz or another solution) of the situation of the area in the studied domain before having read the book.

Reading

• 1 - The Essence of Pleasure 3min or so
• 2 - Foodies 0:53:15
• 3 - Bedtricks 1:??:25
• 4 - Irrepleceable 2:57:25
• 5 - Performance 3:42:55
  • For senior, abortion a medium for art, political discourse by Martine Powers, Yale Daily News 2008
  • BODIES...The Exhibition
  • Art
• 6 - Imagination 4:55:40
• 7 - Safety and Pain 5:35:45
• 8 - Why Pleasures Matters 6:23:35
  • "We are curious and the payoff for learning more is a click of satisfaction." 6:53:40
    • Explanation as Orgasm^* by Alison Gopnik, Mind and Machines 1998
    • ClickingMoments#AlternativeExplanation

See also

• Reward
• Wikipedia:Paul Bloom (psychologist)
• Paul Bloom, Yale Psychology Faculty
• Paul Bloom's Publications
• Why Do We Like What We Like? by Paul Bloom, Big Think June 2010
• reviews
  • by Bryan Appleyard, Times Online June 2010
  • by Phil Hogan, The Observer July 2010
  • by Nicole Branan, Scientific American MIND Reviews July 2010
  • by Mary Carmichael, Newsweek 2010
  • by Robin Marantz Henig, NYTimes.com 2010
• Wikipedia:Essentialism
• Susan Gelman's Faculty Profile at University of Michigan
  • interested in categorization
• Substance, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• 'The Compass Of Pleasure': Why Some Things Feel So Good interview, NPR July 2011
• Compass Blog for The Compass Of Pleasure by David Linden

Overall remarks and questions

• this? that?

Synthesis

So in the end, it was about X and was based on Y.

Critics

Point A, B and C are debatable because of e, f and j.

Vocabulary

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Post-reading model

Draw a schema (using PmGraphViz or another solution) of the situation of the area in the studied domain after having read the book. Link it to the pre-reading model and align the two to help easy comparison.

Categories

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