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Freud's Unfalsifiable Psychoanalysis
- Freud aimed to ground psychoanalysis in empirical science but ended up with speculative ideas.
- Karl Popper critiqued Freud's theories as unfalsifiable and thus unscientific.
Subliminal Numbers Affect Choices
- Stanislas Dehaene's experiments showed subliminal numbers can influence conscious decisions.
- Presenting a conflicting subliminal number delays or confuses responses in a conscious number task.
Unconscious Math Insight Process
- Mathematician Jacques Hadamard describes problem-solving in stages: action, incubation, illumination.
- Discovery often emerges after unconscious brain activity during unrelated tasks or rest.