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I agree. I heard a researcher put it like "we often think of the conscious mind as being the guy in the driver's seat, making decisions, and guiding behavior; b

I agree. I heard a researcher put it like "we often think of the conscious mind as being the guy in the driver's seat, making decisions, and guiding behavior; but really *most of our decision making and behavior is guided by subconscious processes and the conscious mind is more like the PR person who comes up with stories that justify our behavior."

3pt14159 4y ago
Well, I don't agree with that fully either. For me, if there is a moral quandary or a highly analytical situation where the subconscious can't quite estimate it then it gets kicked up to the conscious layer for a real, expensive (computationally speaking) decision. Something like "do I really want to flirt with this woman, given that I'm married" or "wait a second the abstraction here is leaking across domains which may ruin the architecture of this program in the long run" get kicked up to the upper layer. But for most of my programming, I honestly just keep it at the subconscious layer and so long as there is music that the conscious mind can check out on we're good.