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3 Post author: polymathwannabe 01 December 2015 10:37PM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 02 December 2015 10:37:47PM 1 point [-]

System I and System II seem to be very unwidely terms because of the numbers. People like Gleb try to find alternatives to use to reach "the masses". There a common tradition of expressing new concepts with Greek and Latin roots. Can anybody think of good names for System I and System II based on Greek or Latin?

Comment author: [deleted] 11 December 2015 09:08:51PM 0 points [-]

There's already several pop-psychology terms that try to point to these two concepts albeit imperfectly:

Left Brain vs. Right Brain Lizard Brain vs. Mammal Brain Instinctual vs. Deliberate Subconscious vs. Conscious Thin slicing vs. planning