The “Call from a friend” example suggests something important about human subjective experiences- we don’t know whether an experience is good or bad while we’re having it, or at the very least, our experiences are revised retroactively. In other words, the memory of a good experience can be a bad experience.
The “Call from a friend” example suggests something important about human subjective experiences- we don’t know whether an experience is good or bad while we’re having it, or at the very least, our experiences are revised retroactively. In other words, the memory of a good experience can be a bad experience.
Example: for twenty years I was happily married and that’s what I reported to anyone who asked, but after my divorce I say to anyone careless enough to ask that my marriage was a mistake I’d rather not have made and we were never really happy.
Which ought to be more respected- our experiences as we experience them, or our reviews of them after the fact?
The “Call from a friend” example suggests something important about human subjective experiences- we don’t know whether an experience is good or bad while we’re having it, or at the very least, our experiences are revised retroactively. In other words, the memory of a good experience can be a bad experience.
Example: for twenty years I was happily married and that’s what I reported to anyone who asked, but after my divorce I say to anyone careless enough to ask that my marriage was a mistake I’d rather not have made and we were never really happy.
Which ought to be more respected- our experiences as we experience them, or our reviews of them after the fact?