The Moment
MISCONCEPTION: You are one
person, and your happiness is based
on being content with your life.
THE TRUTH: You are multiple
selves, and happiness is based on satisfying
all of them.
A Thought experiment: Imagine you are preparing
to go on a two-week vacation.
At the
end of this vacation, you will drink a potion
that will erase all the memories from those
two weeks.
How will this affect your decisions?
Knowing you won’t remember any of it,
what will you spend your time doing during those two
weeks?
That weird feeling you are having
thinking about this is the conflict between
your experiencing self...
person, and your happiness is based
on being content with your life.
THE TRUTH: You are multiple
selves, and happiness is based on satisfying
all of them.
A Thought experiment: Imagine you are preparing
to go on a two-week vacation.
At the
end of this vacation, you will drink a potion
that will erase all the memories from those
two weeks.
How will this affect your decisions?
Knowing you won’t remember any of it,
what will you spend your time doing during those two
weeks?
That weird feeling you are having
thinking about this is the conflict between
your experiencing self...