Why Should We Want To Control Our Futures?

Why should we want to control our futures? It feels good to do so—Period. Impact is rewarding. Mattering makes us happy.

Stumbling on Happinessis not a useful book on how to be happy but one that describes what science has to tell us about how and how well it can predict which of the futures it will most enjoy.

This book is divided into six parts: Prospection, Subjectivity, Realism, Presentism, Rationalization, and Corrigibility.

The human being is the only animal that thinks about the fu...