The Wonders and Limitations of System 1

The main function of System 1 is to maintain and update a model of your personal world, which represents what is normal in it. As these links are formed and strengthened, the pattern of associated ideas comes to represent the structure of events in your life. It determines your interpretation of the present as well as your expectations of the future. A capacity for surprise is an essential aspect of our mental life,. Surprise itself is the most sensitive indication of how we understand our world and what we expect from it. There are two main varieties of surprise: active and conscious. Some expectations are active and conscious while others are passive or unconscious. We next go into more detail of the wonders and limitation of what System 1