From: Jei (jei@cc.hut.fi)
Date: Fri Jan 30 2004 - 16:53:02 MST
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, David McFadzean wrote:
> > I certainly don't want to give the impression that I had any scientific
> > evidence to back up my hypothesis (that happiness has a genetic component).
> > It was simply a guess and a story I made up to explain it if the guess is
> > right; basically just talking out my ass. I do however seem to recall
>
> I was just reading in Csikszentmihalyi's Flow that happiness does have
> a genetic component. Some people suffer from a condition called
> anhedonia, the inability to gain pleasure from normally pleasurable
> experiences. It has been linked to schizophrenia and other mental
> disorders with a genetic component.
What kind of pleasure? Mental and/or physical?
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