There's been an explicit emphasis on this kind of impersonal kind of quasi scientific so called scientific point of view. That type of approach just loses touch with an essential part of being human which again is the first personal side of things. If we are willing to take in the value of first person experience of the way that we live our lives be trying to be authentic. There can be value in experiencing color and art and beauty but it might not be able to reduce that to some kind of like person or human independent or individual independent number. For example comparing one human life to three human lives and assuming there has to be something constant across them to make a choice about which what we know which is
Philosopher and author L.A. Paul talks about her book Transformative Experience with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Paul explores the uncertainties that surround the transformative experiences that we choose and that happen to us without choosing. How should we think about the morality and personal impact of these kinds of experiences, especially when some decisions are very hard or impossible to reverse? Examples include becoming a vampire, having children, religion, and other life experiences and choices.