Wang Jianping: Daily article: "Theory of Perception. Part 10" (79) How to perceive pleasure?
We believe that pleasure is a personal feeling, and pleasure or displeasure is a personal psychological reflection. We do not even think that pleasure or happiness is a perceived result. We generally believe that happiness or joy is a life fact and an inevitable reaction to life scenes and life details. We are all seeking various different happiness in life, to be precise, fragments of happiness in life. But, without these trivial happiness, why should we live? What do we try to get from life? We have always assumed that happiness is the meaning of life. Everyone is subconsciously pursuing the happiness of life, and often bringing this happiness to the extreme and becoming a reflection of human selfishness. We often harm the interests of others by obtaining our own happiness and build our happiness on the pain of others. Happiness strengthens a person's individual consciousness and clearly divides the boundaries between people. We do not realize that the happiness we pursue is actually the source of our pain, and this logical relationship is incredible.
Perceptual society emphasizes perceived pleasure, which is essentially different from our pursuit of happiness in the survival society and the logic of survival. Realizing perceived pleasure is the purpose of our existence and the end of our behavior. Pleasure and happiness are not only fundamentally different, but also these are two forms of existence. Happiness is the psychological reaction of an individual, and pleasure is the comprehensive reaction and overall reflection of existence. So, how do we perceive pleasure in existence activities and social life? Pleasure is no longer a psychological reaction. Pleasure is our interaction state with things. Pleasure reflects our form of existence, and pleasure is our own existence.
Pleasure is a perception and also the reaction of perceived information in our psychology. Our interaction with everything is to perceive pleasure or to perceive pleasure. Under the logic of survival, our interaction with things is to use things to serve our purpose of survival. Things are only beneficial to us or unfavorable, and we will not associate them with our pleasure or unhappiness. The purpose of survival determines our relationship with things. We obtain perceived pleasure from the existence of things. This is the nature and instinct of all living things. The meaning of survival is actually to obtain pleasure from existence. We have never fully realized this problem that survival is to obtain pleasant existence. Pleasure is the response of perception, and pleasure is the meaning that creatures obtain from perception. Survival is actually perception, and perception is to gain pleasure. Creatures do not perceive to obtain pain. Pain exists for the comparison of pleasure perceptions. The purpose of all existence is to be for the existence of pleasure.
What is the existence of pleasure? It means that there is an active, orderly, stable and continuous state, which is joyful in the perceived reaction of the organism. Pleasure is the name of this state of existence by human beings, in which human beings exist as perceived pleasure. Happiness is just a psychological reaction of pleasure. Happiness cannot explain the state of pleasure, and pleasure must contain the state of pleasure. In perceptual movement, pleasure is not an abnormal behavior that actively seeks, pleasure is the state of our interaction with things. Pleasure is the normal operation of things, and pleasure is most fully reflected in the interaction between people, that is, in social life. We perceive pleasure from all forms of existence of others, because others convey the most effective information to us.
Others are at different perspectives of existence and have different existence experiences, experiences and forms of existence. Others’ activity information makes up for our perception, enriches our perception of things, activates our perceptual desire and strengthens our perception. We benefit from the direct perceptual interaction with others and directly obtains perceptual pleasure experience. Therefore, the perceived interaction between people is the main channel and main content for perceiving pleasure. For example, male and female love is a typical behavior of this perceptual interaction.Also, all life behaviors such as conversations, games, performances, etc. have practical significance for mutual pleasure. Others are our perceived objects, and our understanding of people and ourselves is perceived from the existence of others, and the form of other people's existence is closely related to us. Therefore, the ethical principle of perceived society is: others are me. This logic clearly expresses the source of our perceived pleasure.
Perceived pleasure is not a personal psychological reaction, it means that the meaning of the existence of all things lies in their form of existence, and the form of existence of things is related to our perception. Our standard for choosing and creating things is to allow them to present an active, orderly, stable and continuous form of movement in their perceived interactions, from which we perceive the pleasure of existence. This means that perceived pleasure connects everything into a perceived whole, and this perceived whole will present us with endless pleasure. (Continued)
