The non-identity problem | Derek Parfit | EAGxOxford 2016
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How Does Pain Become Imperceptibly Worse?
We are fairly good at noticing whether our dislike is becoming stronger, but we don't notice very small changes. If our pain becomes imperceptibly worse during each of many brief periods, these changes made together make our pain very bad. The same is true of the strength of our like of some painful sensation and our ability to notice that this dislike has become stronger.
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