A Human Strategy #536: Why making plans is quite often happier than fulfilling them & How bad religion survives science

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The only objection to what the concept of happiness really wants is the misery of its fulfillment. The incentives for our concepts do not have as their objects the purported “consequence” but emerge in consciousness more to indulge the present organism than to secure any real traction with the future. This is why making plans is quite often happier than fulfilling them. And it also explains quite a few other anomalies — how bad religion, for example, survives our advances in science.

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