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Cardenal · 01-12-2006, 11:27 PM

I don't know what the policy is on quoting authors, etc, but...
You guys reek of Schopenhauer.

I've never been a big fan of pessimistic thought such as absence of pain is pleasure, there is no true happiness, only lack of sadness simply because I feel happiness. I do not feel an illusion. The basis for any productive philosophical argument sits on trusting that (ok, not really, but how practical is pure rationalism, really?). Drawing from science for a moment, all those chemicals in our brain that correspond to happiness and sadness exist representative of those emotions. As far as I know, happiness is not the absence of the sad brain fluid.

If someone is drugged with increasing amounts of dopamine their entire lives, are they not eternally happy?

01-12-2006, 11:27 PM	#5 (permalink)
Cardenal Upright	I don't know what the policy is on quoting authors, etc, but... You guys reek of Schopenhauer. I've never been a big fan of pessimistic thought such as absence of pain is pleasure, there is no true happiness, only lack of sadness simply because I feel happiness. I do not feel an illusion. The basis for any productive philosophical argument sits on trusting that (ok, not really, but how practical is pure rationalism, really?). Drawing from science for a moment, all those chemicals in our brain that correspond to happiness and sadness exist representative of those emotions. As far as I know, happiness is not the absence of the sad brain fluid. If someone is drugged with increasing amounts of dopamine their entire lives, are they not eternally happy? __________________ I know nothing, but I'm pretty sure I dislike extremes. Hence, its more appropriate to say I know very little. I will doubt everything until I reach truth. Until then, nothing to me will be fact. If I challenge what you believe to be obvious, please understand I'm just helping the both of us learn.