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Psychology catching up with Freud (or, more aptly Nietzsche)

Good to see psychology going "back to the future" as it were:

[C]onsciousness is no more than a passive machine running one simple algorithm — to serve up what’s already been decided, and take credit for the decision.

Rather than a sage conductor, it’s just a tiny part of what happens in the brain that makes us “aware.” All the real work goes on under the hood — in our unconscious minds. 

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