# The origins of pleasure

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDGlobal 2011
- Speaker: Paul Bloom
- Year: 2011
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Psychology and the brain, Philosophy
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_bloom_the_origins_of_pleasure)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Why do we like an original painting better than a forgery? Psychologist Paul Bloom argues that human beings are essentialists -- that our beliefs about the history of an object change how we experience it, not simply as an illusion, but as a deep feature of what pleasure (and pain) is.

## Lectures

1. [The origins of pleasure](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/paul_bloom_the_origins_of_pleasure/43d1e6737e70), 16 min (TED's player)