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Ep 32 Ch 12 "A Physicist's History of Bad Philosophy" Part 3. Some readings and remarks

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The Effects of Antidepressants on Happiness

When you are asked by the doctor, how do you feel on a scale of one to 10, even though you actually in reality occupy happiness level four at that particular point, you might say, oh, I feels like a three out of 10. Now, you're just making an error because you don't have an objective way of measuring your own happiness and unhappiness on a scaleof one to 10. When you take an antidepressant, it might be the case that it elevates you from what is in objective reality, a four out of 10,what you have reported as being a threeout of 10,. It might actually raise that to a sevenOut of 10. And you will report

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