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#321 - Reckoning with Parfit

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Implications of Privilege Over the Past

The future is uncertain. We can't predict with a very great accuracy what's going to happen. It makes sense for us to focus on the present. The world in 50 years time is full of uncertainty. Although we may want to dismiss that notion or parf it certainly does, we don't know what’s going to happen in 50 yearstime.We may have very good reason to privilege the present over the past,. because the privilege that the present is much more certain, much more probable.

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