204 - On Being Certain - Robert Burton
You Are Not So Smart
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Conscious Thought
The vast majority of things occur beneath thought and then they're projected into consciousness. If you drive a home on autopilot, you feel nothing. On the other hand, there are a whole separate area of the brain to give us some idea of what is going on. And this feeling that things are right or wrong can be stimulated in the absence of any thought at all.
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