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Transformative Experience (Paperback)
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Transformative Experience (Paperback)
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As we live our lives, we repeatedly make decisions that shape our
future circumstances and affect the sort of person we will be. When
choosing whether to start a family, or deciding on a career, we
often think we can assess the options by imagining what different
experiences would be like for us. L. A. Paul argues that, for
choices involving dramatically new experiences, we are confronted
by the brute fact that we can know very little about our subjective
futures. This has serious implications for our decisions. If we
make life choices in the way we naturally and intuitively want
to-by considering what we care about, and what our future selves
will be like if we choose to have the experience-we only learn what
we really need to know after we have already committed ourselves.
If we try to escape the dilemma by avoiding an experience, we have
still made a choice. Choosing rationally, then, may require us to
regard big life decisions as choices to make discoveries, small and
large, about the intrinsic nature of experience, and to recognize
that part of the value of living authentically is to experience
one's life and preferences in whatever way they may evolve in the
wake of the choices you make. Using classic philosophical examples
about the nature of consciousness, and drawing on recent work in
normative decision theory, cognitive science, epistemology, and the
philosophy of mind, Paul develops a rigorous account of
transformative experience that sheds light on how we should
understand real-world experience and our capacity to rationally map
our subjective futures.
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