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Existential Anxiety

Overthink

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The Infinite Regress of Choice

In this clip, we see that in order to makea pro and cons list of a particular choice cheety has to make, he first has to decide whether to write the pro and con list with a pencil on paper. And what i like about that specific example is that it hilits the fundamental infinite regress that cheety suffers from. So i like thatit it brings into focus the fact that you can always push back the problem of choice and choose how you are going to choose, and then choose how you're going to choose according to your own logic. Yes, absolutely. There's no way to get out of making a choice.

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