: If our brains are working without us being consciously aware of it, how does that affect the choices we make?Įagleman: When people go through marriage registries, they find that people are more likely to marry other people whose first name begins with the first letter of their own first name, so Alex and Amy, Joel and Jenny, Donny and Daisy, these kind of things. And you may not have any conscious access to how the computation was made. And so a hunch is a way of summarizing vast quantities of data. It doesn’t need to know every bit of the background of American history and Chinese history, it just wants to know what’s happening right now. Essentially the conscious mind is like a newspaper headline in the sense that all it ever wants is the summary, it doesn’t need to know all the details of how something happened, it just wants to know, Obama’s in China or whatever it is.
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