From AtGoogleTalks:
Every aspect of our mental lives plays out in two versions: one conscious, which we are constantly aware of, and the other unconscious, which remains hidden from us. Over the past two decades researchers have developed remarkable new tools for probing the unconscious, or subliminal, workings of the mind. This explosion of research has led to a sea change in our understanding of how the mind affects the way we live. As a result, scientists are becoming increasingly convinced that how we experience the world–our perception, behavior, memory, and social judgment–is largely driven by the mind’s subliminal processes and not by the conscious ones, as we have long believed.
A small sample of related Situationist posts:
- Randomness, Luck, Chance, and other Situational Forces
- The Situation of Reason
- The Situation of Confabulation
- The Situation of Constitutional Beliefs - Abstract
- Social Psychology and the Unconscious: The Automaticity of Higher Processes
- Jonathan Haidt on the Situation of Moral Reasoning
- The Unconscious Situation of our Consciousness – Part IV
- Unconscious Situation of Choice
