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    Oct 28, 2019 2 minutes

    Transformative Experience

    L. A. Paul

    Life choices

    or 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

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