Happiness Deconstructed

Our bodies have pleasure and pain circuits. Probably everything can be explained from a neurobiological perspective.

IMO, happiness can be summed up as:

1. Activating pleasure circuits
2. Avoiding pain circuits
3. Just being
4. Minimizing cognitive dissonance.

If you keep activating pleasure curcuits on a regular basis, they will get desensitized or cause other physical problems.Therefore, regulation becomes important.

Just being avoids triggering the various circuits.

How do you trigger some and avoid some circuits? Behaviour etc. can play an important role in the whole process.

Life is not suffering. You can be happy. IMO, once we have done sufficient brain mapping, we will be able to minimize suffering using brain devices. No need for drugs, alcohol, and meditation. We will even be able to rewire our brains. Involuntary suffering will be eradicated to a great extent. The future doesnt seem far.