algedonics

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The scientific study of pleasure and pain responses.

   “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."”

2. isim The handling of critical events in ways that bypass the usual chain of reporting in order to respond more urgently.

   “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.”