Sublime

Two factors are relevant: temptation and mindlessness.

You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.

discursive

One is fast and intuitive; the other is slow and reflective.

In 1977, Richard Nisbett and Timothy Wilson published a famous but back then controversial paper “Telling more than we can know.” Their main argument was that we have no introspective access to the cognitive processes that produce our judgments. We are, of course, aware of the products of these judgments but

as Nagel predicted. But there is value and glory in the striving. On this journey through nature’s Umwelten, our intuitions will be our biggest liabilities, and our imaginations will be our greatest assets.