If we don’t get bored, we still don’t like the idea of joy without variety. And joyful experiences only seems good if they are real and meaningful
I don’t understand what you mean about not liking the idea of joy without variety. Do you mean that people don’t want to constantly feel joy, that they would rather feel a range of different emotions, including the unpleasant ones? This is not true for me personally.
Also, why do joyful experiences need to be real or meaningful? I think there is meaning in pleasure itself. Perhaps the most joyful experiences you have had were experiences that were “real and meaningful”, so you have come to see joy as being inextricably connected to meaningfulness. Throughout evolution, this was probably true. But with modern technology, and the ability to biohack our neurochemistry, this association is no longer a given.
I don’t understand what you mean about not liking the idea of joy without variety. Do you mean that people don’t want to constantly feel joy, that they would rather feel a range of different emotions, including the unpleasant ones? This is not true for me personally.
Also, why do joyful experiences need to be real or meaningful? I think there is meaning in pleasure itself. Perhaps the most joyful experiences you have had were experiences that were “real and meaningful”, so you have come to see joy as being inextricably connected to meaningfulness. Throughout evolution, this was probably true. But with modern technology, and the ability to biohack our neurochemistry, this association is no longer a given.