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Full Idea
Most feelings are experienced as pleasant or painful, but it is not evident that they all are; curiosity may be one that is not. [note: 'curiosity' may not be the name of a feeling, but a feeling typically accompanies it]
Gist of Idea
The feeling accompanying curiosity is neither pleasant nor painful
Source
Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski (Virtues of the Mind [1996], II 3.1)
Book Ref
Zagzebski,Linda: 'Virtues of the Mind' [CUP 1996], p.144
A Reaction
If a machine generates a sliding scale from pain to pleasure, is there a neutral feeling at the midpoint, or does all feeling briefly vanish there? Not sure.
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| 23953 | Feeling is a superficial aspect of emotion, and may be indeterminate, or even absent [Solomon] |
| 20205 | The feeling accompanying curiosity is neither pleasant nor painful [Zagzebski] |
| 23968 | If reasons are seen impersonally (as just causal), then feelings are an irrelevant extra [Goldie] |
| 23969 | We have feelings of which we are hardly aware towards things in the world [Goldie] |
| 23984 | An emotion needs episodes of feeling, but not continuously [Goldie] |
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