Now The Hidden Brain is leading into some of the other topics it will discuss and there are some points he makes that are exactly what I'm interested in.
Points like " You know the answer, but you don't know how you know the answer," and " . . . It was clear his words upset you, but were you really aware of what was going on in your brain as you lost your temper? . . . but if you didn't conciously decide to get angry, where did the anger come from?" Vedantam also states that we make many conscious decisions every da,y like picking job applicants based on qualifications. He then proves that even these carfully thought out decisions are flawed. This is shown by many experiments run on overweight job applicants. It was proven that anyone who was over weight had a much slimmer chance of getting the job, even if they had the exact same qualifications. Not only that, but also if a healthy-weighted individual was sitting next to an overweight person before the interview they were less likely to be choosen. The hundreds of people they asked to be the interviewers did not consciously decide that the applicant was less qualified because they were in the proximity of an overweight person; their mind simply, because of it's surroundings and all of the things it has been fed and held onto, subconsciously leaped to conclutions, which is it's job.