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New Thinking On How The Mind Predicts Behavior

IDEAS Posted: January 3, 2019 12:33 pm

A revolutionary, and now widely accepted, countermodel to Freud’s scheme goes by the term “predictive mind.” The theory comes in different flavors, but overall it holds that automatic processes play a central role in the mind, allowing us to predict events quickly and accurately as they arise. Learning, experience and consciousness constantly improve our implicit, or unconscious, predictions, and we take note of events only when the predictions fail.  – Scientific American

IDEAS Published: 12.19.18

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