Everything about Pleasure totally explained
Pleasure is commonly conceptualized as a positive experience,
happiness,
entertainment,
enjoyment,
ecstasy, and
euphoria. It is the absolute opposite of
pain.
People commonly feel this phenomenon through
exercise,
sexuality,
music,
usage of drugs,
writing,
accomplishment,
recognition, service, and any other imaginable activity; even pain (known by its medical terminology
masochism). It also refers to "
enjoyment" related to certain
physical,
sensual,
emotional or
mental experience.
Philosophy
Pleasure may also be defined, at least in some contexts, as being the reduction or absence of pain.
Epicurus and his followers defined pleasure as the absence of pain.
The 19th Century German philosopher
Arthur Schopenhauer understood pleasure as a negative sensation, as it negates the usual existential condition, that of suffering.
Utilitarianism and
New Hedonism philosophies both attempt to increase to the maximum the amount of pleasure and minimize the amount of pain.
Neurology
The
pleasure center is the set of brain structures, predominantly the
nucleus accumbens, theorized to produce great pleasure when stimulated electrically. Some references state that the
septum pellucidium is generally considered to be the pleasure center while others mention the
hypothalamus when referring to pleasure center for intracranial stimulation.. Certain chemicals are known to stimulate the pleasure centers of the brain. These include
dopamine and various
endorphins.
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