I was disappointed to not see any discussion of the thinking that might plausibly be concious. Yes, most of our "thinking" is instinctive. But we also have Ka

I was disappointed to not see any discussion of the thinking that might plausibly be concious. Yes, most of our "thinking" is instinctive. But we also have Kannehman's "System 2"[1] which does seem to correspond to what we would normally consider conscious though. We may "think much less than we think we think" but that doesn't mean we don't think at all. This does, in a sense, all boil down to semantics. Poeple can argue for hours about whether a tree falling in the forest with no one to hear makes a sound without realizing that they're arguing over the definition of "sound". But the notion of conscious versus unconscious decisions is a useful one, so given that we have multiple possible scientific definitions of "consciousness" that correspond to our traditional conception we might as well pick the one that's most useful. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow