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There's no self-deception, then?
Only retroactively. Our memories are easy to corrupt. But no, I don't think you can be happy or unhappy at any given moment and simultaneously believe the opposite is true. There's probably room for the whole "belief in belief" thing here, though. That is, you could want to believe you're happy when you're not, and could maybe even convince yourself that you had convinced yourself that you were happy, but I don't think you'd actually believe it.
You haven't given any evidence for those claims. At one time it was believed that minds were indestructible, atomic entities, but now we know we have billions of neurons there is plenty of scope for one neuronal cohort to believe or feel things that another does not.
Sure, that's true. I suppose you could have a split-brain person who is happy in one hemisphere and not in the other, or some such type of situation. I guess it just depends on what you're looking for when you ask "is someone happy?" If you want a subjective feeling, then self-report data will be reliable. If you're looking for specific physiological states or such, then self-report data may not be necessary, and may even contradict your findings. But it seems suspect to me that you would call it happiness if it did not correspond to a subjective feeling of happiness.