Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Free Will Or Paid Will?

While I have been dabbling in freewill, I came across this excellent article (https://medium.com/@darwins_apple/my-bias-about-cognitive-biases-5e0a730b651) which explains exactly how much (or little) consciousness (S2 or System 2 as against Subconscious which is S1 or System 1) is involved in deciding what we do. 

As I explained to a friend yesterday, it's like a man (S2) silly enough to claim that he takes all the major decisions at home while the wife (S1) chuckles silently in the background knowing who exactly does.

And I wonder how is it that most people I talk to won't believe this - that S2 is given too much credit.



Additional reading:

  1. http://vbala99.blogspot.com/2017/10/thinking-fast-and-slow-daniel-kahnemann.html
  2. Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious by Timothy Wilson: https://www.amazon.in/dp/B002OEBN92/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

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