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Why are we happy? Why aren’t we happy?


November 13, 2007

In this memorable TED talk, Dan Gilbert demonstrates just how poor we humans are at predicting (or understanding) what will make us happy. Gilbert is a psychology professor at Harvard, and author of “Stumbling on Happiness”. (Recorded February 2004 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 22:02)


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Posted by Universal Logic  on  11/26  at  10:24 PM

This would be grounds for skepticism and (concern possibly) pessimism regarding the role of post singularity "utopia"...

It immediately makes one ask:

What does the prefrontal cortex evolve/change into and does its abilities improve?

But that is a highly unscientific question! =)

Obviously, we have a ways to go...



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