[Ailist] Controlling happiness

[Kenneth Gergen]

Just to share a wickedly funny send-up of the drug industry's attempt  
to control our happiness:

>>> http://www.commondreams.org/video/fda-approves-depressant-drug- 
>>> annoyingly-cheerful


In other ways, this is no laughing matter. AI demonstrates the  
profound degree to which, through our relations with each other, we  
can create our futures. This stands in stark contrast to the neuro/ 
pharma movement, backed by billions of dollars from the drug  
industry, to let biology "carry us forward."  Ken