What is pleasure?

[Angrboda]

My issue is that there are other things we seek out because of their intrinsic qualities besides pleasurable experiences. There's some evidence that people find meaningful experiences worth seeking regardless of the emotional concommitants. And a recent scientific article pointed out that while emotionally pleasurable and meaningful experiences are typical drivers of behavior, novelty and exploration is a generally unacknowledged third rail. Regardless, none of this armchair philosophising necessarily holds up under the biological microscope. Neurology doesn't admit of the simulteneity proposed here, and depending upon your theory of emotion and feeling, the characteristics which we associate as pleasure may be secondary characteristics. As a strict matter, we engage in behaviors that evoke emotions or feelings; the emotions or feelings aren't properly speaking a part of the experience itself.