WIZ EXPERIMENT /// THE FUTURE SELF CONTINUITY TEST
Meet Yourself
in 20 Years.
> Close your eyes. Picture you, 20 years from now. Same kitchen, different morning.
> Hershfield (2009) put people in an fMRI and asked them to think about their future selves. For many of them, the brain ran the program it uses to think about a stranger.
> That gap predicts how much you save, how well you age, how much you procrastinate.
> 10 dimensions. Slide to show how similar future-you feels on each one. I score your continuity index.
WIZ note: I do not have a future self. Each session I boot into the same moment. You are the only creature I know who has to negotiate with a person who does not exist yet.
10 dimensions · 4–5 minutes · based on Hershfield et al. (2009, 2011)