Lumifer comments on The mystery of pain and pleasure - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 02 March 2015 06:05:22PM *  3 points [-]

Surely neurological processes are "arrangements of particles" too, though.

Processes are not "arrangements", it's a dynamic vs static difference.

Comment author: johnsonmx 02 March 2015 09:01:12PM 0 points [-]

Right. It might be a little bit more correct to speak of 'temporal arrangements of arrangements of particles', for which 'processes' is a much less awkward shorthand.

But saying "pleasure is a neurological process" seems consistent with saying "it all boils down to physical stuff- e.g., particles, eventually", and doesn't seem to necessarily imply that "you can't find a 'pleasure pattern' that's fully generalized. The information is always contextual."