Most conscious logic is based on several fallacies that are never even considered, much less given more than cursory attention when pointed out. Assumptions such as "that's the only moral course" leap out of various arguments at the strangest times.
Also, how do you deliberately follow subconscious logic? It's just that your conscious logic builds on that without much thought. And that is as it should be.
There is no way we could ever act if we had to ponder all the variables of every intended action before making them. This is why learned behavior acts as "variables" in our decision making. If a certain condition is true, we act one way, else we act a different way. If we examine the "condition", though, we may have to work very hard to understand why it would produce only those two actions. |
