Deep truth 🔱
"Perception is reality."
—Republican operative Lee Atwater
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Imagine a car suddenly swerving into your lane. You automatically jerk the wheel to avoid a collision.
Now imagine using your conscious, aware mind to halt yourself from jerking the wheel before a collision occurred.
Not easy.
- Your unconscious or implicit mind triggered the automatic jerk of the wheel, not the voice in your head as many might imagine. 🧠 𝚿
Also known as the intuitive or unconscious mind, it provides an important explanation for alcoholism and, well, pretty much everything else human beings do.
Corporations and politicians spend billions each year to whisper to our intuitive minds. The unconscious mind even helps explain why some people are always late for work.
- "Implicit cognition" is a phrase used by psychologists to refer to the subconscious, unconscious, or non-conscious mind.
- It typically functions beyond the reach of our conscious awareness, or explicit mind, which operates at a slower tempo.
- Our implicit minds jerk the wheel of the car. Our conscious, aware minds in that moment are struggling to keep up.
The human mind routinely sacrifices truth and accuracy for speed and the illusion of certainty.
We imagine having our alcohol cravings under control. But impulses to drink are hiding in poorly lit neighborhoods of the human mind. Not to mention, human beings excel at transforming irrational impulses into rationalized behaviors.
Truthseekers and scientists and philosophers have explored these seemingly distant reaches of the human mind for centuries. The terms "implicit" and "explicit" have been used by mind scientists since the 1920s.
- next time "We're often wrong but never in doubt."
- listening Bryson Tiller "Whatever She Wants"
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