John L. Castiand (SFI): Why We See the Events We Do and Not Something Else. From Vision, a special report on Ideas That Shaped Modern Thought. From Discover, are we trapped in God's video game? Probably not. And no, he's not looking at your underwear. A review of The Situated Self by J. T. Ismael. A review of The Secrets of Happiness: Three Thousand Years of Searching for the Good Life by Richard Schoch; The Science of Happiness: How Our Brains Make Us Happy—and What We Can Do to Get Happier by Stefan Klein; and Making Happy People: The Nature of Happiness and Its Origins in Childhood by Paul Martin. A review of The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder by Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield.  From The Simon, life may not be worth living, but there's

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