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Comment author: mat33 08 October 2011 02:22:20AM *  0 points [-]

"why, that problem is so incredibly difficult that an actual majority resolve the whole issue within 15 seconds.", "We Change Our Minds Less Often Than We Think" and "Cached Thoughts"...

Right. We don't do a lot of "our" thinking ourselves. We aren't individually sentient, not really. We don't notice it, but the actual thinking is going on in our subcultures. The sad and funny thing is, we don't even try to understand the cognition of our subcultures, when we research cognition.

Comment author: stcredzero 03 June 2012 09:04:59PM 4 points [-]

I think I'm sentient. If you're not sentient, I would surmise that you believe you're lucky enough to be in a competent subculture -- one self-aware enough to bring this realization to you.

Could one devise a series of experiments to show that individuals aren't sentient, but "subcultures" are?