Will and Quantifying Pleasure

As previously demonstrated here, Will can be heuristically quantified, i. e. in terms of volitional units, or 'Vols'. So, insofar as Pleasure is a feeling of Will, as has been proposed, it, too, is quantifiable. Now, Will is also the principle of Diversification in Experience, and Diversification ranges from bare repetition and replication, to indefinitely extensive novelty and creation. Accordingly, one measure of Pleasure is the degree of creativity of the felt act along the range of Diversification. One application of that criterion is to a problem that vexes Mill--how to quantify the distinction between 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. For, 'lower' pleasure can, accordingly, be analyzed as the feeling of an effort to merely continue its ephemeral occasion, e. g. the savoriness of food, while it is characteristic of a higher one that it is the feeling of an irresistible creative impulse. However, even if such an explanation improves on Mill's factually questionable observation--that everyone who has enjoyed both types prefers the higher ones--its non-Consequentialist interpretation of Pleasure is not one that Mill is likely to embrace.