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We’re talking about what psychologists today would describe as the “adaptive unconscious.” Timothy Wilson, a psychologist at the University of Virginia, has described this in his important book Strangers to Ourselves (a very Augustinian title!). Over the past twenty years psychology has come to appreciate the overwhelming influence of “nonconscious
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idea, Diener and his students also found a less-is-more effect, a strong indication that an average (prototype) has been substituted for a sum.
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
Our cognitive apparatus is designed, at least in part, to sustain us in the long term rather than balm us in the near term.
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The most interesting thinkers in these fields—the “first-rate intelligences”—have been the ones best able to “flicker” between alternative perspectives on the same problem, paying attention to the objective and subjective while recognizing that neither can be collapsed into the other.
Eric Wargo • Time Loops
Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.