let's pretend that you had the choice between being some degree of happy all the time and having emotional states that a reasonable person of the present day would consider appropriate responses to your experiences. which would you choose?
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Can you develop a fear if nothing ever reduces your happiness? Or, granting that the OP imposes fixed happiness after a life that has developed some fears, do those fears still motivate if they are magically opposed by the mechanism that keeps your happiness level constant?
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I don't think the mechanisms are at all related. For example, you want things that aren't directly 'happiness' and that in practice don't even increase happiness, and you fear losing them. Pain would still hurt even if you were happy while feeling it, and you'd fear it.
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