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This kind of experimental evaluation seems like an all right method of judging your brain, if performed correctly. What I'm not comfortable with is endorsement of the absence of judgement over one's cognition or of not changing anything based on such judgment, no matter what situations that endorsement is restricted to.
Hmm. Well, true for me too. I wouldn't endorse it per-se either, especially not in an ideal world with an ideal mind.
However, considering limited mental resources, limited willpower and constant internal competition for the conscious mind's attentions, I believe that this kind of behavior is instrumentally rational considering that it works when you have a good idea of when automatic behavior produces better results and, more importantly, all the much more likely times where it doesn't.