It is imperative – at least I feel that way – to inform people about the power of the unconscious, and how we often rationalize decisions after the fact. Unconscious desires and also unconscious perceptions can lead us on a path of magical thinking that, if we don’t know better, we will find very hard to leave.

So it’s not really a psychic sense of the future that makes me slow down the car, but a subtle clue from the environment that another car is about to rush out of the side street. That I didn’t consciously notice the kid turning her head that way, or whatever else, doesn’t make it a premonition.

Furthermore, this at least insulates us somewhat against attempts at manipulation of, say, advertisement agencies (priming is a tool of the moment).

Topics like the one today are why I initially sought out a/the brain science podcast.

I haven’t heard the episode yet, but I have episode 11 twice, and everything after (the pub radio entry, ep 12 and ep 13) three times in the feed.

Just a heads-up. I’ll probably be back shortly…

I’m a geeky cognitive psychology student, so this is so my thing… Thanks!!