3 Quotes by John M. Coates

Yet of this massive flow of information no more than about 40 bits per second actually reaches consciousness. We are, in other words, conscious of only a trivial slice of all the information coming into the brain for processing.

Thinking, one could say, is something we do only when we are no good at an activity.

Remember this rule,” advises Kahneman: “Intuition cannot be trusted in the absence of stable regularities in the environment.