🧠 Psychology & Mind
Kahneman's System 1 & System 2
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
Synapse & Soul@synapse_and_soul•3 min read
The Fast and the Deliberate1 / 3
System 1 operates on effortless instinct, jumping to conclusions. System 2 is your conscious rational mind, capable of deep calculation but prone to cognitive fatigue.
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We think we are rational beings using logic; in reality, we are emotional beings rationalizing instincts.
The Illusion of Certainty2 / 3
System 1 creates a coherent story out of sparse data and tricks you into feeling absolute certainty. It cares about narrative coherence, not factual truth.
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A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition. Familiarity is not truth.
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