[ExI] Bodies

[Lee Corbin]

Mike wrote:

> [Lee wrote]
 >
>> Are you finding yourself curious about enough things?
>> Or curious enough? Curiosity itself is [simply] a certain
>> kind of brain behavior... 
> 
> Thanks.  Now I'm curious about knitting a kayak to go over Niagara
> Falls.  While I'm at it, how about skydiving with no parachute, just a
> large ball of synthetic yarn...

Right, get we ever to the Promised Land, there will be no shortage
of fun.

Many of us would be curious about those experiences. But why?

Historical continuity is the answer, perhaps. We can ask,
"just how much fun *were* many possible activities back
in XX and XXI, given the tech of the day?"

Because, as you write,

> Don't we already have some control over motivation to do different
> activities?  If I really don't feel interested enough in my job or
> other aspects of my life, can't I just get a prescription
> neuroceutical?  Why don't we do that?

Stathis explained that we can't yet.

I feel that I can enhance who I am by becoming more curious,
whereas loss of curiosity threatens identity. So I'll want the
experiences I'm presently curious about, and the experiences
for which I'm not yet curious but intend to be---instead of
the equivalent satisfaction and pleasure via direct brain
stimulating.

But what then? Even more long term, what comes after you
have experienced everything you can imagine? Or will there
always be new conceivable experiences?

All that can be proved rock-solid is that there will
always be new experiences understanding yet more
mathematics. And if that doesn't turn you on, well,
you need merely adjust your brain.  <sigh>  Someday.

Or there is Repeated Experience. My first post to this list
in 1996.

Lee