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Posted: 26 Apr 2022

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We have all experienced the longing to return to a favorite spot in the world, a place we once relished and remember to fondly that we had to go back and recapture the moment. And yet when we go back to visit the second time, it is not quite the same. The feelings are different. It is not that they are bad or good. It is that they are different.

Our commonsense idea about past experiences is that each has a feeling to it that is specified for the particular event in question. The actual feeling itself is tied to the actual experience, and we expect we can recapture the feeling by replicating the experience. Repeat the event and we expect the original feeling will come along automatically. I am suggesting that it doesn’t. This is not how to think about it. - page 218
2 years ago. Edited 2 years ago.

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