Ambient heat vs a point source
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Ambient heat vs a point source
This morning I chastised myself for using the gas heater when the Sun was up and I could be using the solar panels for clean, free heat. I forgave myself because it is deepest winter and before long heating won't be needed. At that point I felt a small sense of mourning for the cosiness that a gas heater brings.
Which raised the question - why does being warmed by fire feels more beautiful than ambient warmth?
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Is there an implication about the nature of pleasure and pain, happiness or discontent? Do we need to suffer before we can really be happy? Do we experience certain levels of pleasures and pain, or only relative differences? Think about relative wealth and poverty. Two people may have identical incomes in real terms, yet one may appear wealthy relative to those around him, and one poor, and they probably experience their relative prosperity rather than the absolute truth. Does happiness work in this way as well?
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Yet, without the capacity to ignore the (apparently) prosaic, no progress would be made. Humans seem to pay for their extra capacities with a kind of numbness - a relative lack of spontaneity and emotionalism.
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