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You don't actually know what your future self wants | Shankar Vendantam

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Is Every Part of the Ship of Thesis New?

The famous plasticity of the brain means that on an ongoing basis, you are constantly becoming a new person. This has profound consequences for so many different aspects of our lives. When we lock people up and throw away the key, it's not just that the people we in prison are going to be different in 30 years from now. Our future selves might not share our views, our perspectives, our hopes.

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