Superhappiness

Longevity and Happiness — Living in the Blue Zones

Peter July 9, 2015 3957 Views No Comments

Globally there have been identified so called “blue zones”, places where people live in general for longer than in other areas on Earth or as my husband says “the places that have everything“.

Compulsory Well-Being: An interview with Will Davies

Peter July 1, 2015 4111 Views No Comments

The UK government’s use of psychology has suddenly become controversial.

Different Molecular Profiles of Eudaimonic and Hedonic Happiness

Peter January 28, 2015 7722 Views 1 Comment

Molecular biologic techniques have been employed to analyze happiness and the results distinguish between two forms of happiness at the molecular level.

Cybernetics, Art, and Ideas (1971) — Lost Transhumanist Classics

Peter December 17, 2014 9081 Views No Comments

Cybernetics, Art, and Ideas (1971) by Jasia Reichardt is a lost and out of print masterwork of multimedia, interactive, and computer generated art that will be of interest to transhumanists.

Sense of Meaning and Purpose in Life Linked to Longer Lifespan

Peter November 11, 2014 3903 Views No Comments

The findings raise the intriguing possibility that increasing well being could help to improve physical health.

Video Friday: David Pearce on H.G. Wells’ Utopia

Peter May 30, 2014 5080 Views No Comments

Intuitively, one might indeed suppose that lifelong bliss would make us weak. Contrast, for instance, the Eloi with the Morlocks in H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine. In practice, the opposite is true. “That which does not crush me makes me stronger,” said Nietzsche, but the best way to make ourselves stronger short of becoming cyborgs is to amplify our pleasure circuitry and enhance ...