Two Mind Syndrome

What is it about?

This is a short critique that targets two highly popular ideas. The first is that the mind is divided into two systems a fast one and a slow one, and the other which is that based on this concept of the mind we can use this understanding to influence the way people made decisions. In this sort piece I briefly discuss how problematic this conception of the mind is problematic, and that more attempts to challenge this position in public is needed, because of it's incredible popularity in the world beyond academia.

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Why is it important?

In this sort piece I briefly discuss how problematic the conception of dividing the mind up in to is, and that more attempts to challenge this position in public is needed, because of it's incredible popularity in the world beyond academia. The problem is severe, for the reason that, it has been accepted as a useful way of thinking about the mind when the evidence base for this distinction is weak at best.