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This doesn't make logical sense if both these words "happy" mean the same thing, so we should use different words for both.
We only occupy a level of happiness/contentment above our individual, natural, set points as long as we are regularly satisfying previously unsatisfied preferences. When that stream of satisfactions stops, we gradually revert to that set point.
OK, so the point is happiness depends on the time derivative of preference satisfaction rather than on preference satisfaction itself?
If I knew what "time derivative" meant, I might agree with you.
Amount of change per unit of time, basically.
Then yes, that's exactly it.