Every new experience may change your preferences. Seeking out new experiences will predictably have this effect. Openness to experience requires openness to seeing your preferences changing, even if you do not know in what direction. This has been going on since birth, as no-one is born with the preferences they will have as adults. There is a process by which they develop, which does not, or at least need not, stop on reaching adulthood.
Yes, experiences change preferences. This process is however not just random but can be guided. The question of how that process of changing the utility function can be addressed rationally is open.
“I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it i’d eat it, and I hate it.”
Every new experience may change your preferences. Seeking out new experiences will predictably have this effect. Openness to experience requires openness to seeing your preferences changing, even if you do not know in what direction. This has been going on since birth, as no-one is born with the preferences they will have as adults. There is a process by which they develop, which does not, or at least need not, stop on reaching adulthood.
Yes, experiences change preferences. This process is however not just random but can be guided. The question of how that process of changing the utility function can be addressed rationally is open.