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It's also known that the brain is prone to outright constructing demonstrably fictional rationalisations of decisions it's never made. Any notion that we're re
by vidarh 2y ago
It's also known that the brain is prone to outright constructing demonstrably fictional rationalisations of decisions it's never made.
Any notion that we're reliable narrators of our own thoughts and actions is fiction.
- mewpmewp2 2y agoRight, that makes sense, our brain will do a quick black box judgment (some may call it system 1), and then rational process only works to justify that or explain the black box, assuming that black box is always correct (depending on the person and how much they trust their black box or system 1). So system 2 is "hallucinating" the best justification for system 1. And usually system 2 will do it only when it's required to justify it for anyone else.