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The Coherence Trap
We are a species of storytellers, relentlessly curating the messy, contradictory events of our lives into a neat, linear progression. From job interviews to first dates, we are asked to present a coherent narrative of who we are and where we are going. But what if this fundamental act of self-creation is a trap? Philosopher Galen Strawson issues a chilling warning that our cultural obsession with the personal narrative is not a path to self-knowledge, but a form of self-imprisonment—a tyranny that forces the chaotic truth of our being into a story too small to contain it.
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