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> I hope this comment wasn't too off-topic from the main point of "pleasure"

It looks to me far away over there in the "what's my profit in reading" direction I'm afraid.

Fair enough :-) Do you have a theory for why we view reading, even in terms of pleasure, as favorable? I imagine it's because we see some utility in it over other activities.

Reading causes your brain to hallucinate. Visualization is a muscle: reading is the weights at the gym.

Read good english, speak good english. Read dumb english, speak dumb english.

> we see some utility

So what utility do you see in Netflix? Or doomscrolling? Or whatever you do for pleasure?

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