One reason that I write this blog is that I think most people know very little about their own minds. As a result, we rely on our folk psychology to give us intuitions about how we think. Folk psychology is the general term for the general set of beliefs hanging around in our culture for the way the mind works. Our folk psychology draws from a number of sources including our own observations about or minds, popular myths about the mind (like "we only use 10% of our brain) and aspects of psychological theories past and present that have made it into common discussion (like elements of Freudian psychology that color our beliefs about mind).” source...
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