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Re:Against Automaticity by delocalized on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @06:23PM (#37242638)
I appreciate the flaws pointed out in specific studies in this article, but the detour into phenomenology at the end (a philosophy on the subjectiveness of reality) gave me a bit of whiplash. It seems that the author here writes "we are not so irrational that a little nudge suddenly changes our whole character" and derives "so everyone's own reality is their definition of rational."

A more logical antecedent in my opinion is "we are influenced mostly by concrete priors, rather than minute nudges in behavior."

Re:Against Automaticity by canjobear on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @10:54PM (#37244506)
Agreed. Rational agents are not less mechanistic than automatic prime-able agents.