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THE BAD NEWS IS
THAT PLEASANT SENSATIONS
QUICKLY SUBSIDE AND SOONER OR LATER
TURN INTO ÙNPLEASANT ONES? Even scoring the winning goal in the World Cup Final
doesn't guarantee lifelong bliss! In fact, it might all be downhill from there... Similarly,
if last year I received an unexpected promotion at work, I might still be occupying that new position,
but the very pleasant sensations I experienced on hearing the news disappeared within hours!
Ìf I want to feel those wonderful sensations again, I must get another promotion. Ànd anòther?!
And if I don't get a promotion, I might end up far more bìtter ànd àngry than if I had remained just
a humble pawn!? This is all the fault of evolution. For countless generations our biochemical system
adapted to increasing our chances of survival and reproduction with pleasant sensations. But these
are only an ephemeral sales gimmick! We struggle to get food and mates in order to avoid ùnpleasant
sensations of hunger and to enjoy pleasing tastes and blissful orgasms. But nice tastes and blissful
orgasms don't last very long, and if we want to feel them again and again we have to go out
looking for more food and mates! What might have happened if a rare mutation
had created a squirrel who, after eating a single nut, enjoys an
everlasting sensation of bliss? Technically,
this could actually be
done by rewiring
the squirrel's
brain!
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