The Importance of Consciousness in Decision Making

Your conscious mind has very little access to the giant and mysterious factory that runs below it. Your brain runs mostly on autopilot, and your conscious mind just sits in the back seat and waits to see what comes pouring out. Our neural circuits were carved by natural selection to solve problems that our ancestors faced during our species evolutionary history. So your brain has been molded by evolutionary pressures just like your spleen and your eyes have.