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Wanting to be Wanted (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

Minds Almost Meeting

CHAPTER

Are We in Control of Our Choices?

We all need to talk as if we were somewhat in control of it and somewhat like managing it consciously. And that may be much of a pretense in the sense that, you know, makes us be attracted to some people or not. Even if these descriptions have some correlation with what we end up choosing. It doesn't mean that the process of choice has much to do with our conscious analysis and categorization of it. That may not just have much effect on the actual choices.

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