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I think Kahneman and I are probably talking about something similar, but I am hesitant to refer to both as happiness. I think it leads to misunderstanding, since the two are related but conceptually distinct. As an aside, have you read Bertrand Russell's The Conquest of Happiness? Its a pretty fascinating rumination on the subject from one of the best philosophers of the 20th c. Its enlightening, too, because we tend to talk about collective lack of happiness as a modern societal phenomenon, and when he wrote the essay in the 30s, that's also how people talked about it, illustrating just how miserable people have been since the dawn of time.