Happy new year folks! Creating this episode brought me much joy and I am looking forward to sharing it with you all.

We get into new concepts, ideas, thought experiments and stories in this episode by exploring how psychological continuity impacts the way in which we make sense of the world through the first person experience that is afforded to us by the cartesian ego.

We start this off by discussing the continuity loops illustrated following the thinking model created by Derek Parfit which essentially argues that the differences between different persons are extremely important, but does not consider the differences between the same person at different times to be important at all.

Parfit argues that this makes self-interest theory vulnerable to attack from two directions. It can be compared to morality on one side, and 'present-aim theory' on the other.

Parfit argues that our present aims can sometimes conflict with our long term self-interest. Arguments that a self-interest theorist uses to explain why it is irrational to act on such aims, can be turned against the self-interest theorist, and used as arguments in favor of morality. Conversely, arguments that a self-interest theorist uses against morality could also be used as arguments in support of 'present-aim' theory.

We also have a super deep dive into the energy of the year ahead and the implied undertones that stepping into our purpose brings along with it! Here's the link to the pictures

All this and more in the first episode of 2022!