Wilson assigns a much more important role to the adaptive unconscious than just the …show more content…
He takes the view that we as human beings’ know that there is such a thing as consciousness, we have all felt it and consequently, for us, it exists. If someone were to tell us ‘imagine the colour blue’, we could easily do so. Even though we do not know if the other person imagined the same blue as we did, we are able to imagine more or less the same thing as the other person. This thinking process was conscious and with therefore we have proof that we experience our consciousness, arguably every day. This, of course, makes it easier to understand the concept of conscious thinking. The task of understanding the adap-tive unconscious proves so difficult because we do not have the first-hand proof, we have with our consciousness. We are unable to feel the adaptive unconscious’ presence. If we would have to think about the last time we made a decision unconsciously, we would be unable to answer the question. Timothy Wilson does a good job of describing this phenom-enon by just explaining how we would react if we were to lose our non-conscious mind. How would our day be different if we lost the ability to make decisions and process information