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"None of the moral virtues arise in us by nature."
—Aristotle
> godspeed | go to hell
After centuries of thinkers investigating the human mind, the late Nobel Prize-winning psychologist and researcher Daniel Kahneman propelled us even further.
Kahneman's influential 2011 book, "Thinking, Fast and Slow," recasts the mind as System 1 (intuitive, hot) and System 2 (analytical, cool). 🟥 🟦
- It'd been 100 years since famed psychologist Sigmund Freud referred to them as the conscious and unconscious minds.
Writes Kahneman:
>> "Conflict between an automatic reaction and an intention to control it is common in our lives. … Every human being has had the experience of not telling someone to go to hell. One of the tasks of System 2 is to overcome the impulses of System 1. In other words, System 2 is in charge of self-control."
Kahneman says we're born ready to automatically fear spiders and recognize objects and avoid losses.
Our System 2 or conscious, analytical mind enables us to reason our judgments and actions. Our System 2 minds are more thoughtful and effortful by design.
More from Daniel Kahneman:
>> "System 1 continuously generates suggestions for System 2: impressions, intuitions, intentions, and feelings. … When information is scarce, which is a common occurrence, System 1 operates as a machine for jumping to conclusions."
- It’s the conscious System 2 that will stop us from saying something we’ll regret. We use it to fill out tax forms. We use it to focus our attention. We use it to search our memories for sounds. But System 2 has limits.
Adds Kahneman:
>> "Because System 1 operates automatically and cannot be turned off at will, errors of intuitive thought are often difficult to prevent. Biases cannot always be avoided, because System 2 may have no clue to the error."
- next time "Cats don't have the same conscious, reasoning minds."
- listening Black Sabbath "Into the Void"
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