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Well, ethical question can only be answered in the light of the notion of happiness. If you find happiness is serving others, then you would be inclined towards one view, whereas if you find happiness is self regulated activities, then you would be inclined towards the other view of ethics. For more...

. Always perceived grey as being a neutral color... ....................................................................... http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NaoPB3ZEP7E/UWXSQaKQK5I/AAAAAAAAqGE/57FB1SE8_OA/s1600/FGDownBelow.gif Apparently, Fifty Shades of Grey is rather exciting. . haha :P well, things can...

Well, maybe I was a bit harsh with psychology, but in my regards, psychology is not a real science. In psychology, all you have are well known effects, but there isn't any explanation for them. About empathy. It follows from my model of emotions that when an individual moves from his ground state to...

We are on topic. I have asked you a question five posts previous. Perhaps you did not read it. So I post again. Not all are hedonists and not all are monks..... What about the Middle of the Road? Oh, yeah, I forgot about that :D Well, the middle path is the path that we all take. But, you would see...

Haha, the discussion often goes out of hands at message boards :P I would really appreciate guys if you could stick to the above thesis, and provide your opinion based on it. Monks and stuffs alike can only be correctly understood when we are them, and they us. Without this, it's just misunderstandi...

haha, I love criticism, but you would agree too that criticism from someone who doesn't share your base views is useless. So, that's what I meant from closeminded people who would not venture out for the unknown. If all we knew now is all we could ever know (the closeminded person's view of the worl...

In this post, I would try to explain a theoretical method that I have conceived to explain emotions. This method uniquely related the psychological phenomena of emotions to the neurological phenomena of brain development. Again as a warning, those with faint hearts and closed minds, please skip over...

If you were to express your thesis in one sentence, would it be?:

.............................................................The effects of happiness upon our brain could be an unperceived element of our evolution.

YES!!!

I would be leading this paper with my notion of logic and evolutionary biology. In the process that would follow such act, I am sure I would be ridiculing a few of long held conceptions of happiness, and how they eventually manifested themselves in the form of ethics and law. This post is not for th...