The Internal Computer

Read this in the book "BLINK" by Malcom Gladwell-:

"The part of our brain that leaps to conclusions is called the adaptive unconscious and the study of this kind of decision making is one of the most important new fields in psychology.The adaptive unconscious is not to be confused with the unconscious described by Sigmond Freud which was a dark murky place filled with desires and memories and fantasies that were too disturbing for us to think about consciously.This new notion of the adaptive unconscious is though of instead as a kind of giant computer that quickly and quietly processes a lot of data we need in order to keep functioning as human beings.When you walk out into the street and suddenly realize that a truck is bearing down on you do you have time to think through options?Of course not.The only way that human beings could have ever survived as a species for as long as we have is that we have developed another kind of decision making apparatus that is capable of very quick judgements based on very little information.As the psychologist Timothy D Wilson writes in his book "Strangers to Ourselves" "The mind operates most efficiently by relegating a good deal of high level sophisticated thinking to the unconscious just as a modern jetliner is able to fly on automatic pilot with little or no input from the human "conscious" pilot.The adaptive unconscious does an excellent job of sizing up the world warning people of dangers setting goals and initiating action in a sophisticated and efficient manner."

I think we are innately suspicious of rapid cognition.We live in a world that assumes that the quality of a decision is directly related to time and effort that went into making it. What do we tell our children? Haste makes a waste,Look before you leap Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover.We believe that we are better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible on deliberation.e really only trust conscious decision making .But there are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgements and first impressions can offer a much better means of making sense of the world.Decisions make very quickly can be every bit as good decisions as decisions make deliberately and cautiously."

A rapid decision making about my drawings is a good method to make  interesting work I think.