Happiness, the Light of an Unreachable Dimension

The renowned philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell said this about the secret of happiness.

"The happy man is the man who lives objectively, who has free affections and wide interests, who secures his happiness through these interests and affections and through the fact that they are, in turn, made him a subject of interest and affection to many others."

"The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile." - Bertrand Russell, 『The Conquest of Happiness (The Conquest of Happiness, 1930)』

My professor, who taught me a lot, explained this sentence as, "Warm interest in humans and non-humans is the secret to happiness." It's been over 30 years since I read the book, and almost 10 years since I heard the professor's very good explanation, but I'm still pondering its meaning. As is always the case when I hear the words of other philosophers, I am going through the process of hearing good words and eventually making them one of my values.

So far, what I have thought of happiness is that it cannot be quantified and cannot be set as a goal. Happiness is not some goal to be reached, but an emotion that I can feel myself. What I haven't sorted out yet is that people set the word happiness, give it meaning, and define it in their own way, but is happiness really something that can be done? Can humans give meaning to something that cannot be quantified? Can humans give meaning to something that is not real? Of course, there are many possible cases, but is happiness definitely like that? I still haven't found a satisfactory answer to this thought. One of my other values is that everything is love, and if I apply it to that, happiness is ultimately love, so the conclusion has already been reached that happiness is not what it is, what the definition of happiness is, and that such things cannot be determined.

But nevertheless, I think we should continue to think about this. I am the same. While pondering the fact that happiness cannot be quantified and cannot be set as an achievable goal, I began to think about the issue of dimensions. Why can't happiness be quantified in this universe we currently live in? We have secured the technology to quantify human emotions in general. Of course, such general emotions are relative because the experiences experienced by each individual are different, and they are having difficulty in quantifying them, just like happiness. But even though happiness is a part of emotion, I think the emotion of happiness is a little different from other general emotions. Isn't it more like a higher category?

To put a long story short, my thought is that happiness is out of this 3D world we currently live in. Because it is in a dimension higher than us, we cannot quantify it, we cannot set it as a goal, and it cannot be an object that we have to try to reach. It is my belief that there are definitely higher dimensions than us. Happiness must be somewhere there too. We can think of a higher dimension than us, or we can pursue it and sense the reflected light transmitted from that dimension, or what is projected into our world, but we cannot move and stay in that state. So, in my opinion, happiness is a very momentary, personal, and unattainable emotion that can be felt from moment to moment. I will elaborate on this story about dimensions in the next article in the story about computers and dimensions./

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