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Re:Ask HN: Books that impacted your work that few other peop... by davidwf on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @12:14AM (#28452959)
Sure! The "core" I mentioned above talks about the common psychological concepts of Id, Ego, and Superego (and more), and analogises them to separate processes running on your brain's processor, with a "layered approach". Lower-level processes have a higher interrupt priority. For example, fight-or-flight happens at a subrational level, and therefore "rational" thinking won't change the way you handle a fight-or-flight response, since the triggering of that response inherently interrupts your rational thought-loop.

I'm not saying that this is literally correct -- the brain is way more complicated than that! But I find it quite useful as a metaphor for processing and understanding social dynamics that I inherently find "irrational".

Re:Ask HN: Books that impacted your work that few other peop... by anm89 on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @01:21AM (#28453351)
Interesting, yeah I like the analogy. I'll throw these on the reading list and give it a shot