Doomscrolling: Which you is you?
This isn’t an episode about your phone. Doomscrolling is just the easiest example to catch yourself.
You can want to stop and keep going. But we don’t treat them as equals. We think of the one that wants to stop as the real you and the other one an intrusion, a hijacking of your free will. But the one you call you is the one that loses most nights. Why is that?
Harry Frankfurt’s answer dates back way before cellphones.
Reading, chapters, and the transcript are at teawithsocrates.com.
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