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There may be reason to think that someone will already have beat 
Snickerdoodle to the punch by 2032 per Robert Goldfarb's hypothetical 50 
year retrospective on this forum. 
 
In an actual lecture delivered on February 26 of this year (2004), at 
Georgetown University, I heard Daniel Kahneman the recent Nobel Laureate 
predict that advances in neuroeconomics with uses of brain imaging would 
make it feasible within 10 to 15 years (i.e. 2014 to 2019)) to construct 
hedonometers for placement on the heads of individuals in order to measure 
their point in time levels of well-being. A central point of his lecture 
however was the importance of distinguishing between point in time 
"experienced" well-being and retrospective "remembered" well-being. While 
Kahneman told a number of jokes with deadpan delivery, this prediction did 
not seem to be one of his jokes. 
 
I did not hear Kahneman mention anything about the Heisenberg Ear Problem 
so this could still leave territory for Snickerdoodle to make his mark. 
 
David Mitch 
 
 
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