Currently Reading: Thinking Fast and Slow

"One way we have advanced beyond Hume is that we no longer think of the mind as going through a sequences of conscious ideas, one at a time. In the current view of how associative memory works, a great deal happens at once. An idea that has been activated does not merely evoke one other idea. It activates many ideas, which in turn activate others. Furthermore, only a few of the activated ideas will register consciousness; most of the work of the associative thinking is silent, hidden from out conscious selves. The notion that we have limited access to the working of our minds is difficult to accept because, naturally, it is alien to our experience, but it is true: you know far less about yourself than you feel you do."

-D. KAHNEMAN