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What if the subject doesn't realise they're unhappy because they've never been happy and have nothing to compare against? Your statements seem to assume everyone has the same perspective to measure against, but in reality people's perspective can be radically different

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Like I said, you can make that argument, but then you need to provide a criterion for saying someone is unhappy. That's where behavioralism or functionalism or something similar comes in.

> Your statements seem to assume everyone has the same perspective to measure against, but in reality people's perspective can be radically different

On the contrary, I think people have different perspectives. Two people can be in the exact same situation and their subjective feelings can be radically different.

It seems that we agree

We definitely need to make judgements based on both behavior and subjective thought processes rather than just one or the other

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