There are lots of potential points of contact. The most obvious is that to determine an individual’s possible intensity range of valenced experience, we have to think about the most intense (in the sense of most positive and most negative) experiences available to that individual. I don’t have a view about how long-tailed the distribution of pleasures and pains is in humans, but I agree that it’s a question worth investigating. And if there are differences in how long-tailed the distribution of valenced experiences is across species, that would entail differences in possible (though not necessarily characteristic) intensity range across species.
Happy to speak to something more specific if you had a particular question in mind.
Thanks for this!
I’m curious about how these frameworks interact with Logarithmic Scales of Pleasure and Pain
There are lots of potential points of contact. The most obvious is that to determine an individual’s possible intensity range of valenced experience, we have to think about the most intense (in the sense of most positive and most negative) experiences available to that individual. I don’t have a view about how long-tailed the distribution of pleasures and pains is in humans, but I agree that it’s a question worth investigating. And if there are differences in how long-tailed the distribution of valenced experiences is across species, that would entail differences in possible (though not necessarily characteristic) intensity range across species.
Happy to speak to something more specific if you had a particular question in mind.