For me, “enjoying life” means “enjoying good things that happen in life”, while everything in-between is neutral at best. Many people seem to put positive value on “in-between” space.
If I try to point out, some people enjoy just the fact of being embodied.
I enjoy being embodied, and I’d describe what I enjoy as the sensation rather than the fact. Proprioception feels pleasant, touch (for most things one is typically likely to touch) feels pleasant, it is a joy to have limbs and to move them through space. So many joints to flex, so many muscles to tense and untense. (Of course, sometimes one feels pain, but this is thankfully the exception rather than the rule).
I wouldn’t say it’s literally the fact of being embodied. But my happiness baseline (at least, nowadays) is such that I feel a bit above neutral just sitting and not thinking; often rises a bit more if I’m reading or interneting (including LW, Wikipedia, text messages).
My example is when people say “I enjoy life” they mean actually enjoying life-as-whole and not like “I’m glad my life is net-positive” or whatever.
What’s the distinction?
For me, “enjoying life” means “enjoying good things that happen in life”, while everything in-between is neutral at best. Many people seem to put positive value on “in-between” space.
If I try to point out, some people enjoy just the fact of being embodied.
I enjoy being embodied, and I’d describe what I enjoy as the sensation rather than the fact. Proprioception feels pleasant, touch (for most things one is typically likely to touch) feels pleasant, it is a joy to have limbs and to move them through space. So many joints to flex, so many muscles to tense and untense. (Of course, sometimes one feels pain, but this is thankfully the exception rather than the rule).
I wouldn’t say it’s literally the fact of being embodied. But my happiness baseline (at least, nowadays) is such that I feel a bit above neutral just sitting and not thinking; often rises a bit more if I’m reading or interneting (including LW, Wikipedia, text messages).