The unconscious mind: Hidden depths | The Economist - 0 views
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unconscious—a sort of shadowy basement of the mind
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gillian baron-goodman on 02 May 13a great metaphor, that helps people understand how the unconscious mind works
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Freud's unconscious (a hot, claustrophobic place full of repressed memories and inappropriate sexual fantasies about one's parents)
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place of super-fast data processing, useful survival mechanisms and rules of thumb about the world that have been honed by millions of years of evolution.
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stitches together data on colour, shape, movement and perspective to create the sight enjoyed by the conscious part of the mind.
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almost every piece of information they come across is a survival mechanism that evolved to aid quick decision making
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ie behind the tendency for human beings to group people into races, genders, creeds and the like, and then to apply certain characteristics—unjustifiably—to every member of that group.