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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20190516T121500
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SUMMARY:Transformative religious experience and empathy for future selves
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TZID:Australia/Melbourne
LOCATION:The University of Melbourne\, Melbourne\, Australia
DESCRIPTION:<p>To understand a transformative experience\, we often attempt to mentally model or imaginatively project ourselves into the possible future experience\, that is\, we attempt to imaginatively empathize with our possible&nbsp\;future selves. However\, actually experiencing these transformative changes can affect our judgments about what these subjective futures will be like (for us and for those around us). I will explore the way that transformative&nbsp\;experience can put us in the position of regarding our future selves as epistemically and psychologically alien to our current selves\, and how this raises a paradox of empathy. I&rsquo\;ll address related issues involving life-defining&nbsp\;decisions\, preference change\, and the possibility of self-deception\, and how fear of alienation and corruption is embedded in skeptical resistance to the possibility of religious transformation.&nbsp\; &nbsp\;&nbsp\;</p>
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