page 119 - But Dijksterhuis's work also shows that our unconscious thought processes don't engage with a problem until we've clearly and consciously defined the

page 119 - But Dijksterhuis's work also shows that our unconscious thought processes don't engage with a problem until we've clearly and consciously defined the problem. If we don't have a particular intellectual goal in mind, Dijksterhuis writes, "unconscious thought does not occur." from Nicholas Carr's The Shallows. My local library got a copy right after the review of it was posted on HN. It makes a really good case against too much browsing web pages or other hypertext.