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#402 - Paul Bloom - Why Pain & Suffering Are Necessary For A Good Life
Modern Wisdom
Are You Optimizing for the Remembering Self?
i thought about the remembering and the experiencing self a lot. I came to the, perhaps incorrect conclusion that because the remembering self lasts for far longer than the experiencing self, that optimizing for the remembering self makes sense when youare younger. But then thereis something like the vacationyou took two years ago. Maybe think about it a few times, but you don't spend a week of your life thinking about that vacation you took two years before. Some experiences are rarely referred back to. And we tend to remember endings. It's even as a hedenist, everybody's happy bause it's etns. It's the remembered self you're maximizing.
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