From the fabulous book: Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite, we get this: The best working model of the human mind suggests to us that the thing you think of as "you" is best modeled as the press secretary for the committee that is your mind. For those who don't know, press secretaries are usually kept (intentionally) largely ignorant of what's really going on, and have a responsibility of making the committee look good to the external world.
Think on it for a while. FWIW, this is my current favorite book about the mind, having already eclipsed Kahneman. Thesis: the unitary self is a crazy position that makes sense only halfway, and only when introspecting somewhat delusionally. All modern science knows that the mind is a pile of modules all trying to interact, and all very specialized, with a thin facade of self pretending at unity.
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