Konubinix' opinionated web of thoughts

Experiencing Self and Remembering Self

Fleeting

see conscience phénoménale,

The experiencing self is the one that has the experience and feel what it is like to have the experience.

The remembering self comes to existence when you have a retrospective look.

The remembering self makes decisions that the experience that the future experience self will have

You often make decision by looking at your past experiences.

paradox

The remembering self makes decisions that the experience that the future experience self will have

Yet, those have different intuitions

When asking people how happy they are, they invoke their remembering self because their experiencing self is no more.

Somehow, this might explain the people pleaser effect and then the feeling good bias. You tend to want to promise stuff so that you create good memories, without much care for the future experiencing self (present bias).

for remembering self, time does not matter, but event does

Hence the peak-end rule

for remembering self, pain is not integrated over time

People that have 60s of small pain and 30s of lesser pain will prefer this experience over simply 60s of small pain.

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