We Humans Can Look Deep Into Future

When We Have An Experience -- Hearing A Particular Sonata, Making Love With A Particular Person, Watching The Sun Set From A Particular Window Of A Particular Room -- On Successive Occasions, We Quickly Begin To Adapt To It, And The Experience Yields Less Pleasure Each Time. Psychologists Call This Habituation, Economists Call It Declining Marginal Utility, And The Rest Of Us Call It Marriage

Most Of Us Appear To Believe That We Are More Athletic, Intelligent, Organized, Ethical, Logical, Interesting, Open-minded, And Healthy-not To Mention More Attractive-than The Average Person.

Global Warming Is A Deadly Threat Precisely Because It Fails To Trip The Brain's Alarm, Leaving Us Soundly Asleep In A Burning Bed.

The Word Happiness Is Used To Indicate At Least Three Related Things, Which We Might Roughly Call Emotional Happiness, Moral Happiness, And Judgmental Happiness.

We Humans Can Look Deep Into Future And Predict What Will Happen, But Then Turn Around And Do Nothing About It.