It is a representation of what their live sets are like, with a few added bells and whistles thrown in for optimal listening pleasure.
Offstage he's a seeker: reading Krishnamurti for pleasure, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience" for inspiration, and George Chauncey's historical study "Gay New York" — recommended by Mr. Lane — for background.
More specifically, these design principles indicate an optimal balance on a certain design attribute that receives the highest aesthetic pleasure (e.g., Most Advanced, Yet Acceptable).
He said: "There's a growing body of research on 'green exercise' that shows the simple pleasure of connecting to the natural world can put you in an optimal frame of mind and reduce the risk of poor mental health".
Scitovsky seems to suppose that pleasure derives from a single underlying arousal dimension; pleasure is return toward an optimal level of this (much as it is return to something like homeostatic equilibrium for Plato, §2.2.1 above).
Instead of dismissing these games as "guilty pleasure", Aaron Dignan argues in his book Game Frame that online games -- like all play -- actually produces optimal learning conditions at work and in our personal lives.
