How Unconscious Are We?

What if, while living in the so-called Information Age, we are actually information-deprived? How much of human life is conscious? During any given moment, we consciously process only 16 of the 11 million bits of information our senses convey to our brain — meaning that our intuitions and hunches are closer to reality than our conscious thoughts. "Consciousness does not contain much information, for information is otherness and unpredictability." What a confidence trick we’ve been playing on ourselves for the last 3,000 years!

Tor Nørretranders