You have to weigh discrete items, because those that are sufficiently described by “novelty” and “variety” are just random noise.
Continuous random noise is quite monotonous to experience—the opposite of varied. I didn’t say that variety and novelty were my only values, just that I assign value to them. I value good music, too, as well as food and other pleasant stimuli. The theory of diminishing returns comes into play, often caused by the facility of the human mind to attain boredom. I view this as a value continuum rather than a set value.
In my mind, I’m picturing one of those bar graphs that show up when music is playing, except instead of music, it’s my mind and body moving throughout the day, and each bar represents my value of particular things in the world, with new bars added and old ones dying off, and… well, it’s way more complex than, “assign value K to music notes XYZ and call it done.” And several times I’ve been rebuked for using the phrase “assign value to something”, as opposed to “discover value as already-implemented by my brain”.
Continuous random noise is quite monotonous to experience—the opposite of varied. I didn’t say that variety and novelty were my only values, just that I assign value to them. I value good music, too, as well as food and other pleasant stimuli. The theory of diminishing returns comes into play, often caused by the facility of the human mind to attain boredom. I view this as a value continuum rather than a set value.
In my mind, I’m picturing one of those bar graphs that show up when music is playing, except instead of music, it’s my mind and body moving throughout the day, and each bar represents my value of particular things in the world, with new bars added and old ones dying off, and… well, it’s way more complex than, “assign value K to music notes XYZ and call it done.” And several times I’ve been rebuked for using the phrase “assign value to something”, as opposed to “discover value as already-implemented by my brain”.