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Ep14 "Why do we have so little access to what’s happening under the hood?"

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman

CHAPTER

The Power of Consciousness

Most of what you think and do is generated by functions of your brain to which you have no access. Consciousness developed because it was advantageous, but only advantageous in limited amounts. By the time you read a mental headline, all the important action has already transpired. You're an odd kind of news reader because you take credit for the idea as though you thought of it first.

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