The author basically says that we're, you know, consciousness doesn't really get involved until the unexpected happens.

And we need to figure out what to do next.

So I think we talked about this a bit last time where it's your,

your conscious awareness is dealing with something novel.

But it's trying to learn, like learning is the act of taking it from your conscious

awareness and putting it in the unconscious so you can just run it like a program in the

background.

Yeah.

But then he makes the point, too, that the conscious mind is this great, it really excels

at telling itself the narrative that it's in control.

Yeah.

But it's constantly, I guess, competing with itself.

I don't know if this is this conscious awareness or what. He's saying basically your

consciousness is like a parliament where it's kind of wrestling for who's in control at any one time.

Yeah. Yeah. And you got to, the thing that I toy with is, is how is it conditioning itself to allow

one side or the other of those voting members?

And I suspect that when you have a, and it goes back to the biological value, if the reward,

if the person made an action based on primarily coming from certain voting members, which are the lobes

inside your brain as are flowing it through. And there's a reward that's associated with that

decision making. The biological value conditions through the dopamine or whatever, whatever type

of value chemical we're talking about

in order to allow that vote for that particular instance of a similar situation in the future

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