UTM116H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Zero Point Railway Station, Intuit, Epicurus
5 Oct 2018
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The problem with hedonism: good is pleasure, evil is pain, lots of theories about to maximize good and minimize evil. Instant utility: being please or distress is an attribute of experience at a moment: remembered utility: global evaluation that is retrospectively assigned to a particular past episode to situation in which similar experiences occur. In the moment, your subconscious will tell you if this will be a good or bad experience: you can determine if you want the experience to stop. If you constantly accept (cid:449)hat"s going on, (cid:455)ou"ll feel good when you stop painful experience: will feel angry if have to stop positive experience. Hedonic treadmill: brickman and campbell came up with a theory. If you get used to things that improve your life, the improvements (cid:449)o(cid:374)"t actually change your happiness value: lottery winners not happier than paraplegics, rat race, people are always chasing after things.
