> or it gets vetoed by confused conscious thought Bingo, IMHO. The "stand back, I'm applying rational thought to this" attitude has made quite a few victims ..

> or it gets vetoed by confused conscious thought Bingo, IMHO. The "stand back, I'm applying rational thought to this" attitude has made quite a few victims ... Also known as "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing". Our overdeveloped pattern-recognition engine is not as good (and unbiased) at rational thought as we like to believe.