User Illusion
User Illusion As John Casti wrote, Finally, a book that really does explain consciousness. Although we are unaware of it, our brains sift through and discard billions of pieces of data in order to…
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User Illusion
As John Casti wrote, Finally, a book that really does explain consciousness. Although we are unaware of it, our brains sift through and discard billions of pieces of data in order to allow us to understand the world around us. This groundbreaking work by Denmark's leading science writer draws on psychology, evolutionary biology, information theory, and other disciplines to argue its revolutionary point: that consciousness represents only an infinitesimal fraction of our ability to process information.
What our consciousness rejects constitutes the most valuable part of ourselves, the Me that the I draws on for most of our actions--fluent speech, riding a bicycle, anything involving expertise. In fact, most of what we call thought is actually the unconscious discarding of information. No wonder that, in this age of information, so many of us feel empty and dissatisfied. As