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Paul Bloom - How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like [Audiobook]
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Paul Bloom - How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0393066320, 0393340007 | MP3 32 kbps | 181 MB
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0393066320, 0393340007 | MP3 32 kbps | 181 MB
How Pleasure Works is a great book - it's entertaining and informative, and also surprising - as well as surprisingly funny. It examines different sources of pleasure - from food, to sex, to art, different forms of entertainment, and so on - and discusses recent findings in cognitive science (including a few of the author's own) that tell us about the surprisingly complex and sometimes deeply puzzling nature of human pleasure. The author argues that pleasure is not primarily a response to certain perceptual & sensory experiences, but instead has a significant cognitive component - what we think about something (whether or not we're correct) has a huge impact on how much pleasure we derive from it. The book contains many examples, which range from mildly surprising, to deeply puzzling, to just plain weird; some are very funny. The author has a fresh, engaging and easy style of writing, unlike what one finds in many science books for the lay public - this is enormously fun to read.