Baudot's Theory of Spiritual Nutrition
It seems that humans have needs beyond the commonly acknowledged ones for food, water, and shelter. At the very least, we are additionally social creatures.
Let us hypothesize that each person needs a certain amount of social contact, quantified as a real number, G, for 'Get out already, it's friday night!' The resevoir of G bleeds away at a rate of one unit per hour, and is replenished by social contact. When the resevior falls below a certain critical value, the subject seeks out social nourishment.
I have constructed a table of values for common activities, based on empirical or fictitious data:
It seems that humans have needs beyond the commonly acknowledged ones for food, water, and shelter. At the very least, we are additionally social creatures.
Let us hypothesize that each person needs a certain amount of social contact, quantified as a real number, G, for 'Get out already, it's friday night!' The resevoir of G bleeds away at a rate of one unit per hour, and is replenished by social contact. When the resevior falls below a certain critical value, the subject seeks out social nourishment.
I have constructed a table of values for common activities, based on empirical or fictitious data:
Play Everquest: 1.1/hr
Hang out on clever porn site: 2/hr
Instant Message: 2/hr
Sit at coffeehouse with friends: 5/hr
Party; wear lampshade on head: 7/hr
Travel to new country, sit at coffeehouse with interesting strangers: 8/hr
Play frisbee in park: 10/hr
Just get laid already: 12/incident
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This would make a FASCINATING thesis for a psychology or sociology paper!
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