[lbo-talk] Shakespeare

[Robert Wrubel]

Why does music give pleasure?  With pre-atonal music resolution from dominant to tonic gives pleasure.  Why do certain landscape views give pleasure?  I dont know.  Why does solving a cross-word puzzle give pleasure?  Or sawing off a tree branch?  Something about conquering an obdurate medium, or finding order in chaos.  Sexual pleasure seems to involve building up tension in order to release it.  But the writer about neuronal tensions claimed  that the tension itself is pleasurable.  As Carrol said, Shakespeare is weird!

   

  BobW

  
It reminds me of Kant's explanation of why observing
beauty causes pleasure -- the understanding cannot
cognize the object in any final sense. This is all
well and good, but why is it pleasurable?

--- Robert Wrubel wrote:


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> Carrol Cox wrote: 
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> Chris Doss wrote:
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> > OK. Why would neuronal connections being very
> excited
> > be pleasurable?
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> Why would water be wet?
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> Carrol
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> Chris has a point. Neuronal connections can be
> painful too, as in reading Latin, or watching the
> "weather".
> 
> Bob
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