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What I admire most about Kahneman’s work (and writing) is that he can so convincingly show our lack of awareness, without making us feel too stupid. He centers this discussion on System 1 (fast/unconscious) and System 2 (slow/conscious) – two systems that are always clashing and combining in our own minds, though both are necessary and valuable. I have recently come to think of Kahneman as a kind of “Trojan horse”, because many of the concepts he frames scientifically are the same as those embra
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