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During the last class we had, we saw TEDTalk with our class assistant, Lean. The video was performed by Paul Bloom, who is a professor of psychology and mental science at Yale University. His researchs explores how children and adults understand the the physical and social world, with special focus on language, morality, religion, fiction and art.
Then, we have been given a task dealing with his theory. We have to answer the next questions...
...Pleasure is only a natural thing?
...Is it a pure natural tendency?
...Are there some cultural ingredients in pleasure?
...Are the beliefs responsible of pleasure?
Well, in my opinion, it is a fact that pleasure is a natural thing and even a feeling that everybody has felt at list once in life. We feel pleasure everytime we make the things we love and when we are with the people we like.
Using famous and fascinating examples from scientific studies and experiments, psychologist Paul Bloom argues that human begins are natural-born essentialists: we project meaning to our experiences way beyond the information we receive from our senses. Of course, Hume and Kant made that point about 300 years ago, but sometimes it takes science a little while (or a few centuries) to catch up to philosophy :)
Anyway, this is why the placebo effect is so poweful, why our expectations shade our perceptual experiences (like why we think more expensive stuff tastes better) and why we hold on to superstitious beliefs such as the idea that objects have some unchanging essence or sine gua non that gives them their unique identity. And it all starts with a hilarious story about that Nazi bastard Hermann Goering...
Therefore, I would conclude that pleasure is not only a natural thing neither a pure natural tendency; it is always influenced by the people's culture and the and the beliefs they have, which influence pleasure. I mean, two people can not enjoy the same thing in an identical way because of their believes, their different opinions.
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