Article: Revision number eight unconscious.(homage to "Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious" by Timothy D. Wilson)(Column)

I AM ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE who would topple consciousness from its throne. In my acid-stained youth, I toppled it as often as I could. Since then I seem to have been drifting down this long, white corridor, past a million miles of art, snatching words like bubbles out of the blue. I do recall discovering, early on, that I am less repelled by the tedium of consciousness than beguiled by its invisible colleague, the unconscious. My own unconscious, which knows me like a good valet and does things without being told, does most of my thinking for me these days. I just float along and let things float until they find their places. I use my conscious awareness for writing, of ...

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