Both paint a picture of human intellect or reason fighting forces within us that lead us astray. These unconscious agents distort our perception of "reality" and hide our true motivations. But there has always been an optimism about overcoming these influences through self-awareness and discipline.
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The experiencing self is the "you" in the moment who lives through the event. The remembering self is the "you" that writes the history. It is also the remembering self that is consulted when planning the future. Choices are made based on the remembering self's construction of what happened in the past. Now here's the problem. The experiencing self and the remembering self don't agree on what happened. In fact, Kahneman has shown that certain discrepancies are hard-wired,,,
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This has profound implications. For instance, should a doctor attempt to minimize a patient's memory of pain or experience of it? A procedure's duration and anesthesia level would be addressed differently depending on the priority.
Paul Spector, M.D.: Our Two Selves: Experiencing and Remembering
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