The way everything makes you happy is the same. The hormones though which they make you happy is the same and there is no limit to this. For example, you might thing a certain type of food makes you happy in a different way than another type of food but this is an illusion, they are all the same actually. They all make you secrete more dopamine and nothing more or different. Every kind of drug makes you happy in the same way. Furthermore, the more things you experience that makes you happy, the harder it will become for you to be happy because your standards will increase each time. So please keep this in mind, you dont have to try everything in life even if it is for only once. Every happiness that you experience is the same. Dont fall into the illusion that they are different just because the source of happiness is different, it is alwas the same happiness. There is only one type of happiness. There was an experiment where they give rats dopamine and then those rats die from hunger. The happiness you experience from eating is the same as the happiness from cocaine. They are all the same. Do not fall for consumerism.
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balsoft@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 178d
I'm not sure if this is serious or a shitpost, but following this logic we might as well do the same as rats and just get high on the most potent drugs available (I guess it would be heroin) until death - after all, the "happiness" would be the same as from experiencing anything else.
However, there are a lot more dimensions to human experiences than just how many hormones they release.
Humans aren't one-dimensional happiness-maxxing machines, dophamine and serotonin are just a few markers used by our bodies to make sure our brains keep doing the things that let us continue existing. There are many experiences which are unpleasant or scary or uncomfortable, and yet they are interesting to us. We seek literature that makes us sad, near-death experiences which make us scared, we hike for hours just to see a waterfall. Our ancestors set off on journeys they knew would be their death in horrible conditions, and yet they did it anyways because it was more interesting than living a boring life where they were born.
We are also social creatures, and we do things to our own detriment that are beneficial to those around us. Think about soldiers fighting nazism, or a mother starving just to feed her children.
And sure, there are hormones and other biological happiness markers at play in all those things. Your brain can get high on adrenalin from doing something risky, or on oxytocin from doing something social. However, people remember those actions and experiences not by what hormone they released, but by what impact they had on you and those around you, and this is what truly matters.