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The User Illusion : Cutting Consciousness Down to Size by Tor Nørretranders is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

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The "user illusion" of this groundbreaking book's title comes from computer design and refers to the simplistic mental image most of us have of our PCs. Our consciousness, says Nørretranders, is our user illusion of ourselves. During any given second, we consciously process only sixteen of the eleven million bits of information our senses pass on to our brains. In other words, the conscious part of us receives much less information than the unconscious part of us. We should trust our hunches and pursue our intuitions because they are closer to reality than the perceived reality of consciousness. In fact, most of what we call thought is actually the unconscious discarding of information. What our consciousness rejects constitutes the most valuable part of ourselves, the "Me" that the "I" draws on for most of our actions — fluent speech, riding a bicycle, anything involving expertise. Since this discarding takes time, there's a half-second delay between reality and our perception of it. If a baseball player thought about swinging at a pitch, he'd never hit the ball. 'The User Illusion' makes the case that humans are designed for a much richer existence than processing a dribble of da

Who reads The User Illusion : Cutting Consciousness Down to Size?

Author

Tor Nørretranders

Publisher

Viking Adult

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780140230123

Category

science

Subjects

Psychology, Fiction, Medical

Rating

4.3 / 5 (567 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13