Mental (psychological) happiness refers to the happiness brought by pheromones in the brain in the process of pursuing and maintaining human balance, including hormonal happiness produced by pheromones in activities. However, because there are several types of pheromones in the brain, mental happiness can be divided into: low-level mental happiness (real pheromone happiness); Intermediate spiritual happiness (happiness of image information); Advanced spiritual happiness (happiness of abstract information).
Low-level spiritual happiness
The material basis of low-level spiritual happiness is the real information in the brain. The objects, objects and conditions that can meet these information needs or produce low-level spiritual happiness are external real people and things, such as beautiful and charming men or women, some luxurious luxury cars, luxury houses, precious jewelry, priceless antiques, exquisite clothes and other objects with strong positive price.
Because real pheromones are large, they can store high electric values and energy states. When the real pheromone is in a state of high electric value and high energy, the subject will need external objects related to the information content. When the need is met, that is, the occurrence and existence of external things are consistent with the inner hope, the electric energy and energy on the positive pheromone will be stimulated and released, thus stimulating the reward center and secreting a large number of happy hormones, so that the subjects can get strong pleasure. At the same time, when the state of high electricity and high energy is reduced, it will also produce great relaxed pleasure of unloading and decompression. The happy hormone produced by real pheromones may be dopamine, which is a hormone that usually makes people feel "yeah".
Disadvantages of low-level spiritual happiness:
It is difficult to obtain the external expectation conditions, and the real pheromone is not easy to be stimulated and released. Soon the equilibrium ground state will be restored, and the pleasure will not last. After reaching a balance, it is easy to be disturbed by external changes, resulting in corresponding negative demand, and psychological imbalance will reappear. In addition, it will also induce many new low-level spiritual needs that are difficult to meet in the real world. As a result, the desire is endless, and life is tired and busy. When the desire is denied by reality, it will also produce painful negative demand.
Intermediate spiritual happiness
The material basis of intermediate spiritual happiness is the image pheromone in the brain. Objects and objects that can bring out image information and make it happy are usually some simple cultural and spiritual objects from outside, such as novels, poems, words and other books and film and television works. Compared with luxury cars, luxury houses, precious jewels, costumes, artworks and handicrafts, these items are usually ordinary, simple and cheap, but they have high spiritual or cultural value.
The individual of image pheromone is smaller than the real pheromone, and the stored electric energy and energy state are much weaker. They create happiness in different ways. When the information of a positive image pheromone appears on the conscious screen, the energy it carries can induce a weak current in the screen to stimulate the reward center and secrete happy hormones. Because of the way of inducing current, they can wake up many times or even frequently, producing a faint but long-flowing pleasure.
The conditions for producing intermediate spiritual happiness are usually not limited by the time and space of the real world, and they can freely combine image information, such as those successful poets and novelists, who frequently let various image information (mainly positive information) appear on the conscious screen, constantly inducing current and secreting pleasure hormones.
Poetry and words can generate more passion than novels and essays, because they can concentrate or condense positive information to the greatest extent, make it enter the consciousness screen in a short time, induce more current, secrete a lot of hormones, and easily make people excited or sensational. Therefore, pleasure is different from ordinary novels and articles. Its principle is like collecting all the flowers in the garden and putting them in one basket, which gives people a different feeling from the same number of flowers scattered in the garden. The former will produce more gorgeous and brilliant effects than the latter, and it is easy to feel "elated".
Moreover, the happy hormones secreted by image pheromones may be different in grade or quality from those produced by real pheromones. The former may be some hormones such as endorphins and enkephalins with low quantity and high quality, which usually give people an illusory, elegant, melodious and soothing pleasure. The latter may be a large number of low-quality dopamine hormones, which give people a very strong but short-term pleasure and seem to have a tendency to urge people to take positive actions or activities in reality. In a word, its advantages far outweigh the real information.
Advanced spiritual happiness
The material basis of advanced spiritual happiness is abstract and highly abstract information in the brain. The external objects and activities that can produce advanced spiritual happiness are mainly books related to science, philosophy and perhaps religion, as well as discussion and thinking.
Abstract pheromone is the smallest individual, basically uncharged, but it can have a higher energy state and form curiosity, such as various questions and puzzles. When the curiosity and confusion are satisfied or eliminated, the state energy of relevant information will be released, the state will decline, and the subject will get a relaxed happiness when it is suddenly enlightened. Moreover, if a scientist's thirst for knowledge is satisfied, for example, when he discovers an important and universal law and truth, he will also feel a magnificent aesthetic feeling of "climbing the peak to see the plain" and "all other mountains look small under the sky". This is due to the avalanche release effect of a large number of high-energy information states. In addition, in the process of pursuing the most universal laws, philosophers will also produce some highly abstract philosophical concepts, such as matter, existence, everything, thing itself, absolute concept, one, one and so on. At this time, the brain will produce one of the most advanced happiness hormones, such as strong peptide hormones, which will make people feel extremely great and noble or overlook everything from the top of space. Next, only the concepts of "I" and "everything" are vague in the whole brain consciousness. Then, these two concepts are combined into one, achieving "harmony between man and nature". Finally, there is nothing in my heart, only a highly fuzzy chaotic state, that is, a highly peaceful and silent state.
Religious meditation can also obtain highly abstract happiness like philosophers. Through religious intuitive meditation, religious masters can reduce (or abstract) the objective things in the universe to a highly abstract and omnipotent concept of "God" (or "God", "Buddha" and "Lord"). ), so there are only two concepts of "I" and "God" in their consciousness. However, at the beginning, "I" still had the mood of worshipping "God". Slowly, the distance between "I" and "God" is getting closer and closer, and finally "I" and "God" become one. At this time, there will be lofty and great pleasure in my heart. Followed by an extreme state of silence or nirvana-the best psychological state. At this time, every piece of information in the brain will become neutral (zero) price information, and there is not only no need and desire in the heart, but even no values of good, evil, beauty and ugliness. At this time, the subject holds a kind of mentality of "getting without joy, losing without worry" for everything.
From a scientific or materialistic point of view, the mind in nirvana also means that the information sub-kingdom of the whole brain has achieved the greatest physical and chemical balance, or the greatest "entropy" value in psychological energy. At this time, each pheromone is at the minimum in both electric energy and energy state, that is, each pheromone is in an electrically neutral state and the most stable ground state. Every information child will stay safely in the information library and will not run to the consciousness screen to stimulate and disturb the "ruler (king)" in the information kingdom-the higher consciousness element (component). Just like when a country is extremely peaceful and prosperous, every citizen lives and works in peace and contentment, and no one will go to Beijing to complain to the king and disturb his comfortable and quiet life.
However, although ordinary believers are very devout, it is difficult to achieve the above state of mind. First, their hearts are full of unbalanced information, and their religious beliefs are mainly for the specific needs of daily life-praying for blessings and eliminating disasters; Secondly, they also lack the necessary philosophical abstraction ability, and it is difficult to produce abstract concepts such as "God" in their hearts. Although obtaining abstract religious concepts such as "God" depends more on intuition than rational induction and reasoning than obtaining abstract philosophical concepts such as "Being" and "Taiyi". But some skills of abstract generalization and induction are still necessary. This is why many religious masters are also great philosophers, at least some believers with philosophical tendencies.
But one day, after human beings have mastered and adjusted the electric value and energy state of brain pheromones skillfully, ordinary people can also reduce the electric value and energy state of brain pheromones in an all-round way through methods similar to current electrotherapy, so that all pheromones can be in the maximum state of rational and chemical balance (that is, the highest state of mind in Buddhist teachings "nirvana"). At that time, even if we didn't have to meditate for years like today's religious masters, we could enjoy nirvana as easily as they did.
In short, the highest spiritual happiness is the happiness produced by abstract information, such as the happiness of philosophical and religious meditation and the happiness of scientific discovery; Then there is the happiness produced by image information (that is, the intermediate spiritual happiness), such as the elegant, romantic and passionate happiness produced by art, literature and poetry creation and appreciation; The lowest level of spiritual happiness is the happiness generated by real information, such as the pursuit, acquisition, possession of real luxury goods and luxury goods or the ecstasy generated when achieving some success in the real world (such as Ye! ), although this kind of pleasure is strong, it can't last.