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  • The implication for changing men's violent behavior is clear: it's not enough to get abusive men to think, "I won't hit my wife," because, by the time they have thought this thought, the non-conscious part of their brain that really controls their behavior -- a Darwinian algorithm if you will -- would have already decided to strike out.

    Eric Haseltine: Changing Your Brain's Factory Settings Eric Haseltine 2010

  • The implication for changing men's violent behavior is clear: it's not enough to get abusive men to think, "I won't hit my wife," because, by the time they have thought this thought, the non-conscious part of their brain that really controls their behavior -- a Darwinian algorithm if you will -- would have already decided to strike out.

    Eric Haseltine: Changing Your Brain's Factory Settings Eric Haseltine 2010

  • The implication for changing men's violent behavior is clear: it's not enough to get abusive men to think, "I won't hit my wife," because, by the time they have thought this thought, the non-conscious part of their brain that really controls their behavior -- a Darwinian algorithm if you will -- would have already decided to strike out.

    Eric Haseltine: Changing Your Brain's Factory Settings Eric Haseltine 2010

  • Brain science, Eagleman believes, provides the final frontier in our understanding of our own littleness and contingency: the realisation that consciousness is not the centre of the mind but a limited and ambivalent function in a vast cosmological circuitry of non-conscious neurological functions.

    Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman – review 2011

  • The implication for changing men's violent behavior is clear: it's not enough to get abusive men to think, "I won't hit my wife," because, by the time they have thought this thought, the non-conscious part of their brain that really controls their behavior -- a Darwinian algorithm if you will -- would have already decided to strike out.

    Eric Haseltine: Changing Your Brain's Factory Settings Eric Haseltine 2010

  • The implication for changing men's violent behavior is clear: it's not enough to get abusive men to think, "I won't hit my wife," because, by the time they have thought this thought, the non-conscious part of their brain that really controls their behavior -- a Darwinian algorithm if you will -- would have already decided to strike out.

    Eric Haseltine: Changing Your Brain's Factory Settings Eric Haseltine 2010

  • The implication for changing men's violent behavior is clear: it's not enough to get abusive men to think, "I won't hit my wife," because, by the time they have thought this thought, the non-conscious part of their brain that really controls their behavior -- a Darwinian algorithm if you will -- would have already decided to strike out.

    Eric Haseltine: Changing Your Brain's Factory Settings Eric Haseltine 2010

  • We haven't needed fMRI scans, or software metaphors of brain circuitry, to tell us that we are subject to non-conscious drives that override our limited rational faculties.

    Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman – review 2011

  • Dr. DEHAENE: You don't notice it because it's become non-conscious.

    The Writer Who Couldn't Read 2010

  • Despite detailed understanding of neuronal firings and synaptic transmissions mediating non-conscious, 'auto-pilot' perception and behaviors, there is no accounting for conscious awareness, free will or 'qualia' - the essence of experienced perceptions, like the redness, texture and fragrance of a rose.

    Deepak Chopra: Can Science Explain the Soul? 2010

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