Talk 4: Memory, The Two Selves & Happiness: Perceptions of the Brain Why Our Perception of Reality is Almost Always Wrong?

  Slides for the talks may be viewed here:   

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In the following I publish the slides for the fourth meeting.  The session was given to a discussion of the memory - a store of our past experiences that we rely rather heavily in forming our perceptions of the environment around us.  A brief discussion of  Kahneman's idea of the experiencing and remembering selves is included.  Also included are the results of some surveys about how happy people feel leading to a discussion of illusory superiority bias.

UPDATE (26 March 2024):  University of Bristol has offered, since 2019 a course on 'The Science of Happiness'.  Their experience is interesting - students feel happier towards the end of the course, but most return back to the level of life satisfaction they experienced before the course - Regression to the Mean.