It's funny that like both strategies can work. It's like the second one would just give your unconscious a little more time to get it. The his strategy. Like that is what you're trying to do. You are making an appeal to their unconscious to make a connection that they have not yet made. Yeah. So I want to get back to though that you were asking about whether or not there's like some some debate still about whether language was adapted. And I don't know like I'm not an expert in this, but I was reading I was going crazy reading this afternoon about some of this language stuff and it's insane because of course there's no way to solidly answer the
The Summer of Cormac McCarthy continues – this time we dive into his one piece of non-fiction, the short essay “The Kekulé Problem.” How does our unconscious mind solve problems that conscious deliberation can’t crack? Why does it often work elliptically, in code, rather than giving us the answer directly in language? Is McCarthy right that the unconscious doesn’t trust language because it’s such a newcomer to the human brain?
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"The Kekulé Problem" by Cormac McCarthy
Pinker & Bloom 1990
Dijksterhuis & Strick 2016
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