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Introduction

Every person reading this article has a future self.

That person is as real as the person reading now.

They will inhabit the same body, carry the same name, live with the same relationships.

They will also live with the consequences of every significant choice the present self makes today.

And yet neuroscience has discovered something disquieting: when most people think about their future selves, the brain responds as though thinking about a stranger.

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