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Intuitions, no longer acted on unselfconsciously, no longer ‘transparent’, no longer simply subsumed into action without the necessity of deliberation, became objects of consciousness, brought into the plane of attention, opaque, objectified.
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Compare to my own experience of feeling that I often act(ed) most effectively when acting intuitively. Reflection on the action revealed the process/thoughts that inormed the action despite those thoughts remaining all but unconcious at the time of action. How does one distinguish this from a delusion? I.e. Self appeasing explanantions for action after the fact in the same manner as the experiments discussed earlier, where one hemisphere justified the choices of another without access to the stimulus that appears to actually motivate action.
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
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