All In the Mind med halv times radio udsendelse med titlen “Can Science Measure Happiness?“. Mere om denne kan læses på bloggen, hvor forskellige lyttere også har skrevet kommentarer til udsendelsen.
Deltagere i radioprogrammet er: Neuroscientist Richard Davidson, Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard, Buddhist scholar B. Alan Wallace, psychologist Daniel Gilbert and philosopher David Chalmers. Primært fokus er på selve det at måle lykken og de kommer rundt om flere spændende ting, f.eks. omkring buddhisme, meditation, det subjektive aspekt af “lykke” etc.
Allan Wallace:“… contemplatives have been raising for thousands of years and that is if you’re not simply banking on being lucky and investing in the world as if it is actually a mail order catalogue—I paid my money so please give me the happiness—but actually start cultivating your own mind, then that set point (of happiness) may indeed start to be elevated.”
Daniel Gilbert: “….. And so Adam Smith pointed this out, it’s not my point at all, that therefore people have to be duped into believing that more goods and services will make them more happy. Because they don’t get up in the morning saying what can I do for the economy today, they say how can I be happier?
So I think the economy, societies give us a whole host of lies about happiness, our genes do, genes want to perpetuate themselves, and so they say things like you’re going to love it, it’s going to make you happy;”
Det sidste citat af Daniel Gilbert, hvor han drager Adam Smith ind i samtalen, minder mig om en udsendelse af den 11. time, hvor den engelske filosof Phillip Blonde var gæst. Én af hans pointer er at kapitalisme gør os alle ulykkelige, da reklamer med videre, har som funktion at give os et konstant behov efter nye ting. Karsten har skrevet nogle bullits over highlights i denne udsendelse – som bestemt er værd at se!
