Transformative experience

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1. Becoming a Vampire -- 2. Transformative Choice. Experience is the best teacher -- The normative standard -- Subjective deliberation -- Transformative decisions -- 3. Life Choices. Sensory abilities -- Choosing to have a child -- Temporally extended selves -- 4. The shock of the New -- Afterword: Decision Making. First personal choosing -- The fundamental identification problem -- Informed consent -- Rational addiction -- Indeterminate values -- Finkish preferences -- Imprecise credences -- Hierarchical Bayesian Models -- Unawareness -- Conclusion: Revelation.;How should we make choices when we know so little about our futures? L.A. Paul argues that we must view life decisions as choices to make discoveries about the nature of experience. Her account of transformative experience holds that part of the value of living authentically is to experience our lives and preferences in whatever ways they evolve.