Why Are We Happy

Why are we happy, Dan Gilbert

Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that we’ll be miserable if we don’t get what we want. Our “psychological immune system” lets us feel truly happy even when things don’t go as planned. Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert says our beliefs about what will make us happy are often wrong. He argues that our brains systematically misjudge what will make us happy. The premise of his current research is supported with clinical research drawn from psychology and neuroscience. 
In the TED Talk  “The surprising science of happiness,” comes up with some interesting ideas that base their accuracy on well researched and tested methods.

Who do you think is happier between a lottery winner and a paraplegic, one year after winning vs. losing? The answer seems really simple. But if you think about it, so does life! Researchers have proven that both categories are equally satisfied with their lives. The reason why everyone tends to overestimate the impact or duration of future events is due to “impact bias”. Believing that you will be devastated after breaking up with your wife is reported to the current relationship, but one year after, feelings and circumstances will have changed.

Synthetic happiness: Natural happiness is what we get when we get what we wanted, and synthetic happiness is what we make when we don’t get what we wanted. In our society, we have a strong belief that synthetic happiness is of an inferior kind. this happens because of the contemporary economic situation which teaches us that winning is the most important thing, while losing can only deliver us a humble second place. Synthetic happiness is real and comes when acknowledging that what you have is better than what you lost.

ORIGIN OF PLEASURE

This is the talk of Paul Bloom:
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You laid out this wonderful case that humans are fundamentally essentialists. Do you have a sense of why? Why is the origin of things so deeply important to us?
  In Paul Bloom's TED Talk, The Origins of Pleasure, Bloom delved into the question of why pleasure and pain are what they are. He began with discussing a painting that was forged and sold to Herman Göring, Hitler's second in command. When Göring found that his most prized painting was forged, his biographer said, "He looked for as if for the first time he had discovered there was evil in the world."
  Why, Bloom asked, do origins matter? Because we're focused on status? Bloom argues that it's because we're natural born essentialists -we believe that certain things are certain ways without fault. For example, studies show that wine in that is said to be expensive, no matter how cheap it may really be, is almost always experienced with more pleasure. Sex is affected by this also. Our ideas of how sexually attractive a person may be will change depending on their gender, relationship to us, etc.
  Motives are also important, in both the fields of pleasure and pain. A three-year-old girl's artwork was being sold for thousands of dollars until people found out that her father was coaching her. The art didn't change, simply the way it was made changed. In a study about pain, students who didn't know that the person causing the pain knew he was causing pain experienced less pain than students who knew that the perpetrator knew what the consequences of his actions were.
  Bloom ended his talk with a John Milton quote that I think summed up his video perfectly. "The mind itself is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."

MATRIX

Matrix use a version of the brain in a tray. In this movie, the human being  are aisled in urns. An informatic programme called Matrix is able to conect every brains and recreate a world with relationships between them. The computers that control the planet, need to keep the humans alive because they`re their energy source and with the program Matrix they entretain them.
There's a group of people who escaped the trays and they disconnected themselves from Matrix. They try to defeat the machines, but they aren't able until they find Neo, the one. He, after defeating the computers, makes an error in the system and he takes over the control and the humans are in charge again.
This movie has a relation with the Cavern Mith, due to the fact that they have the same meaning and the components are very similar, for example: the slaves of the cavern would be the humans inside the trays, and the cavern would be Matrix. The fire that is in the cavern could be compared with the agents, and the chains with the weapons. Finally there is also a relation between the exterior world and Zion (from Matrix). The last similar thing would be the freeing of one of the men in of the cavern that came back to rescue the others and the success of Neo in liberating everyone from the machines.

FREE WILL
This article considers the causal impact of a disbelief in free will with a specific focus on law and ethics. Studies conducted to determine the impact of disbelief in free will. One impact is that when people have doubts about free will they tend to have less support for punishment aimed at making a person suffer for her misdeeds.
If someone runs over a boy because they were not paying attention and other does it but it was because the boy suddendly run in the street, those people who doubt free will both of them have the same responsability. Otherwise, the people who believe in free will, would say that the first one should be punished but the second is not morally responsible. One rather important point is to consider what view we should have regarding free will. I take a practical view of this matter and believe in free will. As I see it, if I am right, then I am…right. If I am wrong, then I could not believe otherwise. So, choosing to believe I can choose is the rational choice: I am right or I am not at fault for being wrong. we cannot prove that we have free will. After all, deterministic, random and free-will universes would all seem the same to the people in them.

REASONING WITH EXPERTS


  People often believe an expert's opinion just because they are an authority. But sometimes experts don't agree and they have opposites opinions. So on one knows who's right. If you know about the field in question you can read both opinions and get your own conclusion.
  People tend to pick an expert based on the fact that seh agrees with you alredy believed. This is a fallacious reasoning. They also use reasoning of wishful thinking. Other prejuice that people should avoid is judding factors like height, appearance, gender, age personality, religion, etc.
  Some factors people have to see when they believe an expert are:
-the person has enough experience in the subject.
-the claim being made by the person is within her area of expertise.

  My personal opinion about this is that this is really interesting and the advices are good and useful. From now, all of us shpult try to follow all of them and leave our prejuices. I'm gonna use my capacity of reasoning in the better way posible, look for information and other experts opinion when I have to give my opinion and arguments at something.

Introduction

Heeey,
My name is Lucía, I'm from Tomares, Sevilla. Well, I should introduce myself and stuff I guess, but I find it boring as well as worthless. However, I'm supposed to write posts, my thinkings and my opinions in this blog, so the presentation it's not that important ´cause you'll know me better in some time. Even though I am really bad at expressing myself and I don't wanna do the introduction right now, I will have to try it due to the fact this will have a mark, I want to pass this subject. Alright, I absolutly love music, especially dubstep and rap. Seriously, I love it, it's much better than listening to dumb people, isn't it? Other things that I like? My dog. She's the cutest dog ever! She's now almost two months. We've called her Nora, it has been difficult to name her, finally we agreed in Nora though.

I also enjoy doing karate. I've been practising it for 8 years I think, I hope to continue doing karate for a long time. In my free time, I watch series, usually online owing to the series broadcast on TV are.. How to say it politely? ah yes, are done badly, including the dubbing into spanish. Nowadays, I'm watching The Walking Dead, American Horror Story, The Vampire Diaries and Game of Thrones. I've alredy finished Breaking Bad, Skins, How I Met Your Mother and so on. I have to include that I love horror films, not forgetting 'Saw'.
One important thing about myself, well, it's not really important due to being the teacher the only one who is going to read this. Whatever, I'm always awfully bored, principally at school. To be honest, I hate school. Too many people hate it, actually, it even causes mental issues in a few students although most people don't think so. They should be concerned about that, anyway they won't.
I've written enough, haven't I? So this is me, thank you for reading! 
P.S. Teacher give me a good mark please (5 is ok) , I've worked on it. (Whether you get mad at me for this I'll apologise, but don't suspend me plz).
I'll write soon! :D