Abstract
Animals fulfill their physiological needs by controlling behaviorally the inflow and outflow of energy they exchange with their environment. Such a control is achieved with the information provided by sensations aroused by the afferent messages that reach the brain. The sensations are quadri-dimensional (Fig. 1). The first dimension is duration. The second dimension, qualitative, describes the nature of the stimulus. The third, quantitative, describes the intensity of the stimulus. The fourth is affective. Let us examine this last dimension.
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Cabanac, M. (2000). Pleasure, The Prerational Intelligence. In: Cruse, H., Dean, J., Ritter, H. (eds) Prerational Intelligence: Adaptive Behavior and Intelligent Systems Without Symbols and Logic, Volume 1, Volume 2 Prerational Intelligence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Behavior of Natural and Artificial Systems, Volume 3. Studies in Cognitive Systems, vol 26. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0870-9_41
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