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#551 - Patrick House - How Much Do We Actually Know About Consciousness?

Modern Wisdom

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The Staircase Wife

Sally Kohn: I think there's an interesting difference between Daniel Kahneman and Daniel Gilbert's two views of happiness. One being based on meaning, almost like a retrospective; the other one is lying on a lilo with a cocktail in your hand 23 hours a day for the remainder of time. She says we as humans vary in our preference for past thinking or present thinking or planning for the future.Kohn: We don't get a dossier when we meet a person about what their priorities are but that kind of thing to me is real tragedy.

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