Jubulationg Hedons – A Primer on Analytic Hedonism

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Originally Posted by mousepod

Brilliant! A couple of questions for Dr. €uro:

- Are all hedons alike? Are they like calories or ergs, or are there qualitative differences between different types of hedons?

A hedon is the most basic unit of pleasure - but what that precisely is, is still up to debate. For awhile those in the analytic hedonist community accepted a smile as the most basic unit of pleasure and hence a hedon.

All went well until the first international conference in which it was discovered that Americans and British smiled differently. Apparently, the British felt the American smile was "faked" more often than not and led to suspicion that the Americans were pretending to have more hedons that they actually did.

The American's, on the other hand felt the British full mouth smile was excessively wasting hedons and thought they might be taunting the Americans in the same way the Pound is at a better exchange rate than the dollar.

There was also a small French contingent that insisted that hedons required an embrace and at least one kiss on the cheek, but they were overshadowed by the other conflicts.

All parties eventually agreed that it might have something to do with the eyes and are currently seeking grant funds to explore that proposition.

Originally Posted by mousepod

- What about hedon storage units that become more powerful over time, such as the first VU album or the works of Van Gogh?

I must know!

That is an interesting question. There are those that theorize that such things like works of art recieved huge amounts amour-rays in their creation that sometimes are only released at certain times of history, or recieved by certain people.

Unfortunately, the only way to get a definitive answer would be to build a hedon accelator and bombard the works with pleasure until they broke down and released all stored hedons and amour-rays. The process of course would render the VU album unplayable and the cover art tarnished.