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#295 - Philosophy and the Good Life

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Future Bias

There's a fascinating thought experiment you cite in your book, Midlife. Discuss the thought experiment you referenced there with respect to the question of future bias. Most of us would similarly think, well, I want to have a two hours of total joy this afternoon. And that's relevant to questions about sort of how we feel about death. The way in which it's puzzling is that there's something very temporally unstable about people who are future biased.

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