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Pump water meant irrigation, a defense against hunger, which we were experiencing by that time.

The country was and still is experiencing its own population and economic growth.

I didn't have any language for what I was experiencing; I didn't know it was going to pass.

I find opportunities to tell them how I'm feeling, what I'm experiencing, so we have common language.

You are likely experiencing sensations in response to me.

Alexander asked, "What are you doing?" and the gymnosophist answered, "I'm experiencing nothingness."

Okay, so there is a feedback signal that vetoes the signal of the mirror neuron preventing you from consciously experiencing that touch.

We think the best way to get these missing years is to look at the cultures around the world that are actually experiencing them, areas where people are living to age 100 at rates up to 10 times greater than we are, areas where the life expectancy is an extra dozen years, the rate of middle age mortality is a fraction of what it is in this country.

There is an experiencing self, who lives in the present and knows the present, is capable of re-living the past, but basically it has only the present.

Those are two very different entities, the experiencing self and the remembering self, and getting confused between them is part of the mess about the notion of happiness.

Now this is a direct conflict between the experiencing self and the remembering self.

From the point of view of the experiencing self, clearly, B had a worse time.

And if you do that for a couple of minutes, you have made the experiencing self of Patient A worse off, and you have the remembering self of Patient A a lot better off, because now you have endowed Patient A with a better story about his experience.

Now, the experiencing self lives its life continuously.

So we have the remembering self and the experiencing self, and they're really quite distinct.

From the point of view of the experiencing self, if you have a vacation, and the second week is just as good as the first, then the two-week vacation is twice as good as the one-week vacation.

And in this way, time is actually the critical variable that distinguishes a remembering self from an experiencing self; time has very little impact on the story.

The experiencing self has no voice in this choice.

And basically you can look at this, you know, as a tyranny of the remembering self, and you can think of the remembering self sort of dragging the experiencing self through experiences that the experiencing self doesn't need.

So you can ask: How happy is the experiencing self?

And then you would ask: How happy are the moments in the experiencing self's life?

And, by the way, now we are capable of getting a pretty good idea of the happiness of the experiencing self over time.

The distinction between the happiness of the experiencing self and the satisfaction of the remembering self has been recognized in recent years, and there are now efforts to measure the two separately.

If I tell you that somebody ranked their life eight on a scale of ten, you have a lot of uncertainty about how happy they are with their experiencing self.

Well, it turns out that climate is not very important to the experiencing self and it's not even very important to the reflective self that decides how happy people are.

Well, their experiencing self is not going to get happier.

We found that with respect to the happiness of the experiencing self.

How to enhance happiness goes very different ways depending on how you think, and whether you think of the remembering self or you think of the experiencing self.

And invariably, somebody articulates what many of you are thinking, which is: "If happiness is my innate nature, how come I am not experiencing it?

How come I am experiencing my life sucks?"

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