I know that all our emotions and thoughts are consequences of electrochemical events in our heads. But what I want to know is this: What actually is pleasure? Pleasure is very broad and simple; not complex at all. Compared to our tasting functions, it would be comparable to, say, sweet, or bitter. And then other more complex and specific emotions like jealousy, hatred, or sorrow could be compared to more complex tasting equivalencies like, cinnamony or lemony. So, I'm pretty ignorant. I don't know a lot about chemistry or biology in any real depth whatsoever. But the gist of what I've gotten out of what classes and books I've taken and read is that chemical reactions in between neurons sort of act like switches which alter the paths of electricity through our heads. So these chemicals, these neurotransmitters, or whatever they are. It seems their ultimate function is the manipulation of electricity. And the patterns and the routes through our brains which electricity follows cause sensation??? How can that be? That makes me wonder: Is electricity even necessary to create an emotion? If you use something like laser light and make it follow some kind of special frequency or path, could that create an emotion? What a mystifying thing. Pleasure.
