The Hidden Brain How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives

Sam Harris's wife just wrote a book about over one of the subjects of it's called conscious and conscious or consciousness sorry I don't remember which I haven't read it yet but I heard them talked about it on his podcast and the concept that used to be like super woo woo was what if everything has consciousness yeah with everything had but it just it can't move it can express itself can't change its environment it's limited just like we can't fly and we can't swim underwater and breathe water like we we're limited in our physical abilities right but we assume that whatever limitations that we have like this is where it ends this is where the buck stops here yeah like everything that doesn't move it's gotta be stupid yeah but it might not be.

I wrote about the test in my 2010 book, The Hidden Brain.

I wrote about the test in my 2010 book, The Hidden Brain.

In my book, The Hidden Brain, I described how these patterns shape decisions involving life and death on the upper floors of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

In my book, The Hidden Brain, I described how these patterns shape decisions involving life and death on the upper floors of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

I'm Shankar Vedantam. You may know me as NPR social science correspondent or the author of The Hidden Brain, a book about unconscious bias.