City of Desires - A Place for God?: Practical Theological Questions: 16 (International Practical Theology)

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Another effect of special interest to psychology is the tendency of desires to promote reward-based learning, for example, in the form of operant conditioning. e. to represent how the world actually is, desires aim to change the world by representing how the world should be. One objection to the death-of-desire thesis comes from the fact that our preferences usually do not change upon desire-satisfaction. Some philosophers, often from a Humean tradition, simply identify an agent's desires with the practical reasons he has.

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They state that a person's well-being is determined by whether that person's desires are satisfied: the higher the number of satisfied desires, the higher the well-being. This idea goes back to Immanuel Kant, who holds that doing the right thing is not sufficient from the moral perspective. Desires and preferences are two closely related notions: they are both conative states that determine our behavior.In Buddhism, craving (see taṇhā) is thought to be the cause of all suffering that one experiences in human existence. Once the pop-up window opens up, enter your code by typing it or copying and pasting it, and confirm it, and you will get your rewards. In Hinduism, the Rig Veda's creation myth Nasadiya Sukta states regarding the one (ekam) spirit: "In the beginning there was Desire (kama) that was first seed of mind. In this example, dopamine modulates the processing of sensorimotor information in diverse neural circuits to maximize the ability of the organism to obtain future rewards.

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He uses the term " jouissance" to refer to the lost object or feeling of absence (see manque) which a person believes to be unobtainable. It has been suggested that to prefer one thing to another is just to have a stronger desire for the former thing.City of Desire is a new MMORTS for the iOS and Android platforms where your goal is to be a powerful city boss, put down riots and rebellions, grow your power and influence, and date your assistants and secretaries. Rather than dismiss or even chastise the naughty pedestrian by placing fences or railings to block off “illicit” wanderings, some planners work to incorporate them into urban environments.

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The idea is that whatever reliably predicts the fulfillment of intrinsic desires may itself become the object of an intrinsic desire. Cognitivist versions, sometimes referred to as desire-as-belief theses, equate desires with beliefs that something is good, thereby categorizing desires as one type of belief. There is an extraordinary sequence in which they wander through the Potsdamer Platz trying to remember what it was once like: in 1987 this was still a wasteland, a vacant lot, and almost rural gloaming of nothingness.

There is disagreement whether desires should be understood as practical reasons or whether we can have practical reasons without having a desire to follow them. or by associating the product with desirable attributes, either by showing a celebrity using or wearing the product, or by giving the product a " halo effect" by showing attractive models with the product. But other strands in Hinduism explicitly distinguish lower or bad desires for worldly things from higher or good desires for closeness or oneness with God. Finally, in the brainstem, a hindbrain site near the parabrachial nucleus of dorsal pons also appears able to contribute to hedonic gains of function (Söderpalm and Berridge, 2000). The angels drift and muse, especially in the lovingly photographed Berlin State Library, and surely no library was ever so passionately captured on film.