THE USER ILLUSION
Cutting Consciousness Down to Size
Tor Norretranders
Viking, 1998
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Readers of this book should understand the evidence that consciousness represents a minority of the stimuli that we process, and is a construction of what we perceived a half second ago.
The illusion of how we think our minds work has little to do with what research tells us. In any second, our senses process about 11 million bits of information, but consciousness processes only about 16 bits. Intuition and the unconscious, process far more than is available to the conscious mind. Evoked potentials show evidence of decisions and ideas about a half second before we are aware of them. Our conscious construction of reality is mostly a delayed assemblage of bits of information in the process of being discarded. This book examines more than a century of psychological, information processing, and physical research relevant to consciousness.
Tor Norretranders is Denmark's leading science writer and the award-winning author of more than ten books. He has hosted numerous television programs on science and established a major cooperative network of scientists and artists.
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