Neuroscience - David Eagleman - Powers of the Subconscious

 

Peoples unconscious influence our lives and our behaviour.

Our unconscious mind is just the tip of an iceberg.

A third of the brain is devoted to vision.

People do not have access to why they behave a certain way.

What we do is the product of the past

The topic of human beings having free will or not is a contentious one.

We don’t know what we do mentally as it comes naturally 

1/3 of the brain is dedicated to vision 

Freud - first person to talk about the unconscious 

People have very different realities 

We do not take in all our mental processes in our brain 

Subconscious - huge impact on everyone’s life 

We don’t have a free will 

What we think and what we do is determined by past sequences of genetics and environment all expressed in brain tissue and brain synopses.