Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Prize–winning cognitive scientist, believes that the human mind has two different decision-making tracks: “system 1” operates automatically and quickly, while “system 2” is deliberate and effortful. We tend to use system 1 frequently and reflexively—for instance, gauging the emotions on someone’s face—and apply system 2 when weighing difficult decisions or attempting complex calculations. What we saw in the Task Force was that while cooperation began as a conscious system 2 decision (“they’ll help me later if I help them now; cooperation is in my interest”), a track
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