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Paul Bloom: The origins of pleasure

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Why do we like an original painting better than a forgery? Psychologist Paul Bloom argues that human beings are essentialists -- that our beliefs about the history of an object change how we experience it, not simply as an illusion, but as a deep feature of what pleasure (and pain) is.

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TED.com

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TEDTalks, TEDGlobal 2011, TED, Talks, happiness, philosophy, psychology, science, 2011

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