The surprising science of happiness


Natural happiness: Is  when we get somtething that  we wanted

Synthetic happiness : Is what we make when we don’t get what we wanted”.

            

The experiment

He asked them to rank 6 paintings from the one they liked the most to the one they liked the least.They could choose between number 3 and 4. Almost all individuals chose number 3.

Since these individuals have anterograde amnesia they could not remember who he was, that he was just in the room or that they owned a poster of painting number 3. 

He asked them to rank the 6 paintings from the one they liked the most to the one they liked the least

These startling results indicate that not only can individuals make their own synthetic happiness but they do this unconsciously. Gilbert also found that this unconscious ability to synthesize happiness happens more often in situations where you do not have a say in the matter.

              

The origin of Pleasure

Questions 

Is Pleasure a natural thing?
Is it a pure natural tendency?
Are there some cultural ingredients in pleasure?

Pleasure isn´t a natural thing, is a natural tendency but is not the same for everyone.

There are some cultural ingredients in pleasure for example the history of each object that is very important

Maybe you can have a DC shoes that are real but if they are fake you feel bad . Or you feel happier with for example a trainers of a famous athletics  or a guitar of a singer but if is not from that famous person you have this stuff like  if that is another object in your life

There are many types of pleasure :

-Corporal pleasures like: sex,confortable, listeng to a song that you like...

-Espiritual Pleasures like:  the discoverement of something, love, success...

What is pleasure for ?

The Creator has provided pleasure to facilitate the search for good, for hope of a future joy helps to overcome obstacles. The main thing is not pleasure but the good achieved; pleasure is only a consequence.

(El Creador ha dispuesto los placeres para facilitar la búsqueda del bien, pues la esperanza de un gozo futuro ayuda a superar los obstáculos. Lo principal no es el placer sino el bien alcanzado; el placer es sólo una consecuencia)

             

A fan of Justin Timberlake for example payed 1.025  euros for a piece of toste that justin leaves 

Another example is the swimsuit of Daniel Graig, someone payd 55.000 euros



Lock of hair
It belongs to the King of the Rock & Roll, Elvis Presley
They paid for it 115.000 dolars

Reflexion between Plato's cave and Matrix

                Plato's Cave and Matrix 


El problema de lo real y el problema de la libertad.  La película está ambientada en el futuro (año 2199 aproximadamente). Hay una guerra entre humanos y máquinas. Las máquinas han sometido a los humanos manteniéndolos dormidos en unas cubetas, conectados a un mundo onírico y falso procedente de un programa informático llamado Matrix. En el mundo real sobrevive una colonia de humanos libres, Zión, que intenta liberar a los que están en las cubetas. Para ello han formado 
un ejército cuyos soldados deben entrar en Matrix en busca de aquellas personas que sospechan que Matrix existe. Así es como encuentran a Neo, el protagonista. Neo duda, no sabe qué mundo es real y qué mundo es Matrix. 

The problem of the reality and the problem of the free. The film was about the futere (year 2199 aprox.) There was a was between humans and machines. The machines have subdued the humans keeping them sleep in a "special place" connected to a "imaginate world" and fake from a computer progam called Matrix. In the real world the colonies that survived are the free humans, Zion, that tried to liberate the humans that are in the "special place". To do it, the made an army in which their soldiers had to enter (in Matrix) looking for thoose persons that thought that Matrix exist. Neo did not know what was the real and the fake world, Matrix.

personas de matrix ---------------------------------------------esclavos de la caverna
caverna-------------------------------------------------------------matrix
cuando sale al mundo------------------------------------------zion
fuego----------------------------------------------------------------agentes
cadenas------------------------------------------------------------armas