Science Cannot Explain Happiness

hey. sorry i took so long. i'm so occupied with school and work barely have time for me. Anyways, i was very interested in what you came up with. but really you jump over some major obs tickles. i took some time to go over this page you are getting your information from. i was actually hoping science have find a why to actually explain happiness. my friend when you are reading a research paper be careful of these terms. "Likely" "Maybe" "perhaps" suggested" and many more others. they are just speculations, a theory that one might come to take seriously. they where able to measure brain activities that light up certain area supposedly responsible for pleasure. and yes they explain a lot about the device they use to do this. they have more speculations then facts, re-read it again. in the end this was there conclusion which is not a speculation. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov... "Surveys of happiness provide interesting indicators of mental well-being in societies, but offer little evidence of the underlying neurobiology of happiness. Supporting a hedonic approach to that question, it has been suggested that the best measure of subjective well-being may be simply to ask people how they hedonically feel right now -- again and again -- so as to track their hedonic accumulation across daily life (Kahneman, 1999). Such repeated self-reports of hedonic states could also be used to identify more stable neurobiological hedonic brain traits that dispose particular individuals toward happiness. Further, a hedonic approach might even offer a toehold into identifying eudaimonic brain signatures of happiness, due to the empirical convergence between the two categories, even if pleasant mood is only half the happiness story (Kringelbach and Berridge, 2009)." and if you do read further on their conclusion, they never claim to have find the cause of hppiness, but that have MAYBE have find a start to the puzzle. endorphin. it's job is to release pain, has nothing to do with happiness. Oxycontin- various behaviors, including orgasm, social recognition, pair bonding, anxiety, and maternal behaviors.[8] As a medication, it is used to cause contraction of the uterus, which is used to start labor, increase the speed of labor, and to stop bleeding following delivery.[3] Oxycontin has many job in the human body, it's still unclear what its primary function in the body is. serotonin- this is not the definition but what serotonin does it is a chemical substance that is released at the end of a nerve fiber by the arrival of a nerve impulse and, by diffusing across the synapse or junction, causes the transfer of the impulse to another nerve fiber, a muscle fiber, or some other structure. this also has very little record of being responsible for happiness. "These chemicals are exclusively used by the human brain to produce our happiness state" you said that very boldly, frankly these chemical have more record of other things rather then happiness, happiness is actually the less activities you will find when researching it. they do not explain happiness. "While our systematic knowledge is concrete, it is subject to change with new, valid evidence. It is not fixed for this reason. Though gravity seems fixed, it doesn't mean that our knowledge of it must be...new evidence changes our knowledge." i did not claim that the knowledge in understanding is a fix point. rather the knowledge itself has to be a fix point. like gravity, you know what gravity is, everywhere in the universal you go when you encounter this gravity you will expect it to act like that of the one on earth. that is a fix knowledge, if that gravity was to behave differently from that of earth, you will not consider it to be gravity, because it does not have to same properties as the one you discover on earth. that is a systematic knowledge. "so far all study that are conducted to get some reading of happiness are all opinions base of survey done with random volunteers." yes even the the source you used against me prove this, they even repeated it. "Happiness can also be detected by brain chemicals/activity" detecting the activities of any object does not necessarily give you complete understanding of what it is or what it is doing, or even how it is doing what it's doing. you simply know that its there that is all you know. "Today your dopamine increases, the next day your dopamine decreases...explained." if only it was that simple, Dopamine is not responsible for love or hate. however it does have a role. "Dopamine has a part in many important functions in the brain, playing a role in cognition, punishment, motivation, attention, mood, sleep, voluntary movement, learning and working memory" http://psychology.about.com... so an increase in my dopamine could mean me sleeping for 40 hours. or perhaps being very smart. I will come back to my original respond, happiness is not yet in the understanding of science. just like how things like hope are still far ahead of science same with happiness. pro have shown us many ways to detect this activities in our brain. yes we can detect it but yet the point of this debate was to explain what these instruments are actually witnessing in our brain thorough these electric systems. we can measure how high or low base on what our instruments tells us. but we don't know the why.