Quote Originally Posted by Singu View Post
Well this is problematic, because it's just an observational association of "happiness" and "something happening in the brain". But there's no explanation whatsoever of why would someone be happy, or even an explanation of what happiness even is.

This is just an example of the constant downplaying of the role of explanations, where everything is just turned into correlational statistics, but ignoring causal explanations.

We don't know what happiness fundamentally is... because there's no theory of what happiness fundamentally is. And no amount of "brain scanning" can come up with that. Somebody has to come up with a theory that can explain what happiness is.
I feel inspired enough to pull a theory of happiness out of my butthole right now.