Episode 6.27: We should reverse the importance we give to our conscious and nonconscious existences

We are brought up to think and do habitually think that it is our consciousness, our self-consciousness, and our self-awareness that matters about us. But perhaps it isn’t. Perhaps what really matters about us is the non-conscious activity that our conscious lives direct by selecting the things that matter to us. We’ve talked about this before, but now we will focus on it as a central feature of how we might change the way we make sense of our existence.