Book: 20231229 to 20240309, "Flow" by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
20240103 - 1. Happiness revisited 1 Introduction 1 Overview 5 The Roots of Discontent 8 The Shields of Culture 10 Reclaiming Experience 16 Paths of Liberation 20 The law of entropy is the source of the challenges we meet. Happiness and pleasure come from our perception and imagination, and this is major based on our expectation. If what we got is better than expected, or if we expect things will get better, we are happy. That's why young people are more happy than people in middle age, and why senior people become happy again. If everyone in the world is Zen master, will Nuclear Power and Compuer chip ever been invented? Yes. Because these inventions help us to adapt to the environment, and increase our probability of the survival of our gene. When combined with AGI, Neuralink can help everyone to become Zen master. That could be the major benefit of Neuralink. 20240105 - 2. The Anatomy of Consciousness 23 The Limits of Consciousness 28 Attention as ...