Beer And Conversation With Pigweed And Crowhill

The boys drink and review a peanut butter porter, then wonder about the nature of the mind and the self. We like to imagine that our minds are simple and unified — that we think, decide, and evaluate the world rationally. But the more we learn about the mind, the stranger that assumption becomes.Psychology talks about the conscious and unconscious mind. Behavioral economics divides thinking into fast and slow systems. Neuroscientists debate left brain vs. right brain. Moral psychologists describe the “elephant and rider.” Even the Bible describes a divided inner life: Jeremiah says the heart is so deceitful that we can't understand it, and Paul admits that the things he wants to do he often doesn’t do. There's a war of flesh vs. spirit. So which part of all that is actually "me"?In this episode, P&C explore the mysteries of the self. For starters, our perceptions are filtered before we even become aware of them. That brains that process that filtered information are shaped by millions of