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The User IllusionThe User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size is a book by Danish author Tor Nrretranders. The book discusses the "illusion" of consciousness and explores the fact that the brain is much more parrallel than we realize. Every day your brain manages many tasks that you're not conscious of. Have you ever 'forgotten' your drive home from work? Your brain is capable of handling a multitude of tasks without you having to be conscious of them all. Nrretranders argues convincingly that our conciousness is in reality very bandwidth-limited: there is only so much you are capable of paying attention to at once. Your brain, on the other hand, is highly parrallel. It's capable of managing a multitude of tasks, only intruding upon your consciousness when it needs special case handling: if you had to swerve around a bouncing ball being chased by a child on that forgotten drive home, you'd likely become very conscious of your driving task and would be likely to recall it in the future. This book is a great companion to Steven Pinker's How the Mind Works.
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