you should read this for a different satisfaction=f(meaning, pleasure) equation amzn.to/29ztReL
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the neuro account seems simpler than your socially situated one: satisfaction is the anticipation of accommodating novelty
(shades of schmidhuber's compression progress model)
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you see new thing, you build it into your mental models, compressing along the way (which is one def of 'meaning' of course...)
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