Meaning of algedonics | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The scientific study of pleasure and pain responses.
   plural, plural-only
2. The handling of critical events in ways that bypass the usual chain of reporting in order to respond more urgently.
   plural, plural-only

Examples

“Interactions of mental states with one another, or changing relations of the organism and the environment, determine⟳ all sorts of changes in the quality of the mental states as regards pleasure and pain. To show⟳ how these changes come⟳ about is to obtain⟳ the laws of "algedonics."”

“The conception of algedonics interests the physician, then, as far as it helps him to attempt⟳ to distinguish between a psychic or physical origin for the headache.”

“In that work⟳ there was presented for examination a theory of Algedonics which seemed more adequate to account for our pleasure-pain experiences than any I had met with in the published works of other students of the subject, and which appeared to avoid⟳ the difficulties that had heretofore availed to discredit the hedonic theory of Aesthetics.”

“Marshall viewed aesthetics as a special branch of introspective psychology dealing with algedonics, the science of pleasure and pain.”

“The plant⟳ is adaptive to environmental changes (we have⟳ discussed how this could be done through algedonics). But the built-in control⟳ systems keep⟳ going wrong.”

“The final point⟳ introduces the idea of 'algedonics' (from the Greek 'aldos', meaning pain, and 'hedos', or pleasure), a signal produced by a statistically recognised event, which is so important that it bypasses the usual channels and gets sent directly to S5.”

“The information is transferred from S3 to S4, in the form⟳ of “algedonics” (dashed line between S3 and S4 in Figure⟳ 3).”

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