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your brain's applause for behaviors that once kept your ancestors breeding and breathing.
means A feeling of happy enjoyment or satisfaction, or the source of it.
from From Old French 'plaisir,' the verb 'to please' turned into a noun for the pleasing itself — that French infinitive ending still sits in the English spelling like a fossil. It traces back to Latin 'placere,' 'to please, to be agreeable,' which also gives us 'placid,' 'placate,' and 'complacent' — a whole family of words built on the idea of being soothed into agreement.
same chemicalDopamine fires for sex, snacks, and slot machines
the catchBrain dulls the reward to make you chase more
pain overlapSpicy food and BDSM hijack identical neural circuits
ancient rootLatin placere meant simply to please
pleasure centerRats self-stimulated theirs to death, ignoring food