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Daniel Gilbert. Stumbling on Happiness
DANIEL GILBERT. Stumbling on Happiness
Copyright
Note to Readers
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
PART I Prospection
CHAPTER I Journey to Elsewhen
The Joy of Next
The Ape That Looked Forward
Twisting Fate
Prospection and Emotion
Prospection and Control
Onward
PART II Subjectivity
CHAPTER 2 The View from in Here
Dancing About Architecture
Feeling Happy
Feeling Happy Because
Feeling Happy About
New Yeller
Remembering Differences
Perceiving Differences
Happy Talk
Squishing Language
Stretching Experience
Onward
CHAPTER 3 Outside Looking In
Dazed and Confused
Comfortably Numb
Warm the Happyometer
Measuring Right
Measuring Often
Onward
PART III Realism
CHAPTER 4 In the Blind Spot of the Mind’s Eye
Little Big Head
Filling in Memory
Filling in Perception
The Meat Loaf of Oz
Discovering Idealism
Escaping Realism
An Embarrassment of Tomorrows
Onward
CHAPTER 5 The Hound of Silence
The Sailors Not
Absence in the Present
Absence in the Future
On the Event Horizon
Onward
PART IV Presentism
CHAPTER 6 The Future Is Now
More of the Same
Presentism in the Past
Presentism in the Future
Sneak Prefeel
The Power of Prefeeling
The Limits of Prefeeling
Onward
CHAPTER 7 Time Bombs
SpaceThink
Starting Now
Next to Nothing
Comparing with the Past
Comparing with the Possible
Comparing and Presentism
Onward
PART V Rationalization
CHAPTER 8 Paradise Glossed
Stop Annoying People
Disambiguating Objects
Disambiguating Experience
Cooking with Facts
Finding Facts
Challenging Facts
Onward
CHAPTER 9 Immune to Reality
Looking Forward to Looking Backward
Little Triggers
The Intensity Trigger
The Inescapability Trigger
Explaining Away
Onward
PART VI Corrigibility
CHAPTER 10 Once Bitten
The Least Likely of Times
All’s Well
The Way We Weren’t
Onward
CHAPTER 11 Reporting Live from Tomorrow
Super-replicators
The Myth of Fingerprints
Finding the Solution
Rejecting the Solution
Onward
AFTERWORD
NOTES. Foreword
Chapter 1: Journey to Elsewhen
Chapter 2: The View from in Here
Chapter 3: Outside Looking In
Chapter 4: In the Blind Spot of the Mind’s Eye
Chapter 5: The Hound of Silence
Chapter 6: The Future Is Now
Chapter 7: Time Bombs
Chapter 8: Paradise Glossed
Chapter 9: Immune to Reality
Chapter 10: Once Bitten
Chapter 11: Reporting Live from Tomorrow
Afterword
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX
About the Author
PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
About the Publisher
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New York Times
‘[Gilbert is] an engaging and amiable writer, with a penchant for comedy and cracking wise … but though the delivery may often be antic, the matter is serious…. Reading his engaging, accessible book made me happy. Even if it won’t last’
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