A few quick thoughts about human brain mechanisms before I forget them, as I very well might due to their inconsequentiality.  I was thinking about how much pleasure I have to admit I get from life compared with how little satisfaction I get from it.  Significant satisfaction, that is–like the satisfaction I would get if a seminar on my theory of psychology were scheduled and all the main academics in the field agreed to participate.  But I do get a lot of satisfaction at times from my work on poems and critiques.  Sometimes I can’t imagine any superior satisfaction.  The difference between doing good work and getting credit from others for doing good work. . . .

Anyway, it occurred to me that there may be a difference in kind between cerebral pleasure (and pain) and what I think of as satisfaction (and dissatisfaction).  A parallel to cerebral and cerebellar consciousness, cerebral and cerebellar pain&pleasure, with the latter what we consider dissatisfaction/satisfaction?  My tentative thought is that satisfaction is not pleasure, but results from pleasure while dissatisfaction is not pain but results from the perception that some pleasure was insufficient.

Perhaps satisfaction and dissatisfaction are behaviors caused by certain kinds of pleasure or pain (which are stimuli, not behaviors).  That makes more sense.

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