New Research Says: Trust Your Subconscious Wiring

Humans don't make very good decisions.  This is clear from the Nobel-prize winning work of Kahneman and Tversky, or to anyone who's spent any time with any humans (including themselves) ever.  Now recent work at the University of Rochester confirms that the only sections of your skull you can trust are subconscious.

It's important to remember that your brain, the embodiment of everything you are and the most amazing computation device ever constructed, is a hot-wired adaptation which makes the average MacGuyver gadget look like ten years of planning with a federal budget.  Your skull-meats were intended to help you club things smaller than you to death and eat them, full stop, and the fact we've reconfigured them to do a million other things up to and including building and playing pianos is nothing short of astonishing.

All the original functions work well.  Things like "what's going left", "is that a bad thing" and "where do I move to intercept it" have been shown to work far better than the higher functions - someone who couldn't solve parabolic equations with drag can still catch a ball. Humans are very good at recognizing imminent danger (is that a hungry saber-tooth tiger?) but almost catastrophically bad at the abstract (should I take out a huge mortgage that I have no ability to pay?)

Professor Pouget has studied this reliable sub-conscious wiring, by directly observing neurons responsible for identifying motion to the left or right while the subject observed a collection of moving dotes. The firing of these neurons increases until, when it becomes continuous, the person suddenly "realises" the answer - once the brain has finished its processing, it hands the answer to the waking mind fully formed.

This explains an awful lot about modern society - the underbrain can easily identify physically moving left or right, but once the higher brain is asked to deal with things being politically left or right it all gets messed up.

Posted by Casey Kazan.

Subconscious study http://www.physorg.com/news149345120.html

Comments

[Mark]

If I had to watch a bunch of moving 'dotes', I'd be quite bored. I understand they move quite slowly.

[claudio]

Dear Casey , Well done .

We trust (I trust in particular) to our subconscious functions that in fact remain sub-consious until the brain languages bring them to cognition levels ...in the cortical tissues.

Talamus and Hypotalamus are the base of our intelligence and do so many tasks that only true expert can imagine and figure out.

As a matter of facts it would appear that there are NO basic distinctions among different areas of the brain if we look at the brain and the relevant connections as a 'whole'....only specializations...to do certain tasks...being basic strata the base of higher strata to develop and evolve....like in Your PC of supercomputer .......more or less......a sort of ISO-OSI model more or less.

Human brain is anyway capable of 'Heuristics'(heuristic processes)...something that the best computerized AID to problem solution cannot even compare to.....

Heuristics is something 'magics'....no Bits and Bytes..

'Kind of magics'....if you look at them on pure math base and related modeling...heuristics is very difficult to represent with math.

Correct : You do not need to know differential equations to solve rather complex problems...

Knowledge of complex math... ( math is believed to be anyway a 'language') helps the representation of knowing...It would help you only at some extent in problem solving...It will help You understanding 'Why this or that' and 'how it can happen and how can I represent this process'....

Good article synthesis and representation...

But where we find out 'presentation' in our thinking and reasoning processes (also including the subset of problem solving) ????????

Presentation Versus Representation...difficult matter...no many articles and reserches about this 'topic'...BUT I may be wrong...PLS help.

Agreed in general with the article

Regards

[jer35mx]

I'm or well was a fan of Stargate Sg1 and Atlantis, the Goa'uld genetic traspass of knowledge, well, made me make tests of make a coherent tought of remember an image and to see it in my line of vision and forget about it, few seconds later I got the image when I was thinking other things. Auto sugestion, must probably?, the thing is if we can put thinkings or mental processes in our subconscious and over pass to the future descendants, I know messing with nature, etc.. .

[roger]

They are now called 'sabre toothed cats' I dont know why.

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