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Old 09-18-2012, 01:50 PM   #466
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Like, i'm serious - if anyone can help me understand, i'm not asking in a rhetorical, no-they-don't sort of way - i'm legitimately dead curious as to whether we can be sure that they really do have the sort of emotional concept of 'enjoying' something they prefer that we do.
You can have empirical evidence of preference, by giving access to both, and checking frequency of use. You can have empirical evidence that brain areas associated with pleasure get activated by certain experiences. But, like glatt said, you can't be certain that other humans experience what you consider pleasure, let alone creatures with a different brain, different sensory apparattus, and drastically different life experiences.

But, if you consider the hypothesis that pleasure is just one way of reinforcing beneficial behaviors in the Rube Goldberg structure of the brain, then a marked preference (reinforced behavior) might be evidence for what the animal would experience as pleasure, if there were no other behavior reinforcers (ie pain when choosing the other alternative) detected.

eta: As for the puppy, one possible behavior modifier to look out for might be aversion to novelty in consumption. If the puppy's water is almost always lukewarm, it may be surprised and suspicious if the water is cold one day. Dogs aren't usually known for being particularly picky, but it would have to be something to rule out if an experiment were attempted.
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Old 09-18-2012, 02:37 PM   #467
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Ok. Here's what I'm getting from this discussion:

Ibram has pondered the sensuality of cattle.



Oh, and Sundae? The badgers don't give a shit.
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Old 09-18-2012, 02:44 PM   #468
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Oh, and Sundae? The badgers don't give a shit.
Oh they will. They are being blamed for spreading TB in cows and culling starts soon.
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Old 09-18-2012, 03:33 PM   #469
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Old 09-18-2012, 03:34 PM   #470
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Old 10-02-2012, 10:32 AM   #471
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I had a doublesided all hot pink 500 piece puzzle. Looks like the white album one is easier. At least it has a picture on the box. The pink one came in a glass jar.

Good thing that one is a "collector's edition," since that means that you can't break the plastic on it or the value goes down.
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Old 10-06-2012, 08:37 AM   #472
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I have a Lightening McQueen hologram puzzle at work that confounds adults. Its super easy if you flip it over and do the white.
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Old 10-07-2012, 08:42 PM   #473
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New vest inflates when you receive Likes on Facebook
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A group of scientists at MIT have developed a new vest
that you can link to your Facebook account.
Why would you want to link a vest, of all things, to your Facebook account?
Because when people “Like” something that you’ve posted,
the vest automatically inflates. <snip>

That sounds awfully weird at first, but there’s actually a rather touching reason for its existence.
The idea of this vest – which has been dubbed Like-A-Hug –
is to simulate the feeling of receiving a hug from your friends.

“The vest inflates when friends ‘Like’ a photo, video, or status update
on the wearer’s wall, thereby allowing us to feel the warmth, encouragement,
support, or love that we feel when we receive hugs,” designer Melissa Chow
writes on her website. Chow developed the vest with Andy Payne and Phil Seaton at the MIT Media Lab.

But wait, because it gets even better – by squeezing and deflating your vest,
you can make the vest of the person who Liked your post inflate, essentially giving them a hug back.
BTW, one "ad choice" that came with the link was for "Other inflatable items".
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Old 10-08-2012, 07:03 AM   #474
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Old 10-11-2012, 02:44 PM   #475
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Fart pads.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-mo...rn-inventions/

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In point of fact, they are not effective, as numerous reviews state. Maybe some of the dark wind blows through the filter and is neutralized, but like the dreary mist bringing forth horrors in that Stephen King movie, so too do your butt yawns tend to spread and encompass a vast swath of real estate. The only real way this idea could work would be if, instead of making it a pad for your underwear, it was more like a cigarette filter for your ass and you applied it directly to the hole, like some kind of deranged monocle right there at ground zero where nothing can escape, just looking out and getting fogged up every so often. But of course that's hardly practical and would likely require much more dexterous sphincter muscles than many of us have managed to develop.
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Old 10-12-2012, 02:08 PM   #476
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I thought that was going to be more of a 'shart'-pad situation...

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1. Never waste an erection.

2. Never trust a fart.
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Old 10-21-2012, 04:03 PM   #477
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Old 10-21-2012, 05:54 PM   #478
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Old 10-23-2012, 02:35 PM   #479
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