Considering the goals you’ve held in the past, does now-you value what past-you did? You’ll run into numerous identity related issues if you think of yourself as a point in time rather than a pathway through it, so the question is important. The generalized problem here is utility function imprinting, and human utilities tend to be biologically complicated.
Considering the goals you’ve held in the past, does now-you value what past-you did? You’ll run into numerous identity related issues if you think of yourself as a point in time rather than a pathway through it, so the question is important. The generalized problem here is utility function imprinting, and human utilities tend to be biologically complicated.