Our unconscious decides what we
do, feel and think, including the idea of free will. See The Smart Unconscious (Het slimme onbewuste) by Ap Dijksterhuis:
‘We place
consciousness on a pedestal, see it as the ultimate accomplishment of evolution
and believe that it differentiates us from other animals: that it makes us
sensible and rational, that it plays the deciding role in our brain and steers
our behaviour.
Our unconscious on
the other hand, is seen as subordinate. As no more than an assistant to our
consciousness. Freud even described it as a reservoir of miserable memories and
bestial urges that our consciousness needs to keep in check.
The Smart
Unconscious demonstrates that this viewpoint is absurd and that it is in fact
the unconscious which defines our being. It steers (with a digestive capacity
almost 200.000 larger than that of our consciousness) our behaviour, our
thinking, and our feelings. In this book Ap Dijksterhuis clarifies human
behaviour in a surprisingly lucid manner.’
‘Ap Dijksterhuis
(1968) is a professor of Psychology at the University of Nijmegen. He has
written extensively on the unconscious, and his work has been published in the
authoritative journal Science, among others. His research receives a lot of
attention and has often been reviewed by the NYT. He has won numerous
scientific awards, including the prestigious Early Career Award of the American
Psychological Association.’
http://www.apa.org/science/about/psa/2009/10/sci-brief.aspx
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