"Just feel happy instead" does seem to work in certain contexts and frameworks [1]. For instance, if you become decoupled from the current agent, that is, you s

"Just feel happy instead" does seem to work in certain contexts and frameworks [1]. For instance, if you become decoupled from the current agent, that is, you start paying attention that whatever you call you is just an observer of an implementation of an agent and the feeling of anger, hate, envy, and so on is the care of that particular agent, not an absolute, then you can just switch agents, having whatever feelings the previous agent cared about seem as insignificant as it can get. In practice, being able to sustain the kind of attention required to catch hold of the underlying agent is strenuous, drugs [2] could maybe help, make it easier to attain the observer state, but its early beginnings. [1] 2021, Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence [2] 2019, Ketamine as treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder: a review, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6457782/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6457782/