Most of us have had the experience of resisting our currently strongest desire, for example, resisting the desire to eat another cookie when eating another cookie is what we most want to do. The puzzle of synchronic self-control, however, says that this is impossible: an agent cannot ever resist her currently strongest desire. The paper argues that one prominent solution to this puzzle – the solution offered by Al Mele – faces a serious ‘mismatch problem’, which ultimately undermines its plausibility. It is furthermore argued that this problem can be avoided if we adopt a ‘divided mind’ solution instead.

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失配问题：为什么梅勒解决共时自我控制之谜的方法不成功

我们大多数人都有过抗拒我们目前最强烈的欲望的经历，例如，在吃另一块饼干是我们最想做的事情时，抗拒吃另一块饼干的欲望。然而，共时自我控制之谜表明这是不可能的：代理人永远无法抗拒她目前最强烈的欲望。该论文认为，这个难题的一个突出解决方案——Al Mele 提供的解决方案——面临着严重的“不匹配问题”，这最终会破坏其合理性。还有人认为，如果我们采用“思维分裂”的解决方案，则可以避免这个问题。