What is the “hidden brain”?

The “hidden brain” is a term I created to describe a range of influences that manipulate us without our awareness. Some aspects of the hidden brain have to do with the pervasive problem of mental shortcuts or heuristics, others are related to errors in the way memory and attention work. Some deal with social dynamics and relationships.

What is common to them all is that we are unaware of them. There are dimensions of the hidden brain where, with effort, we can become aware of our biases, but there are many aspects of the hidden brain that are permanently sealed off from introspection. Unconscious bias is not caused by a secret puppeteer who sits inside our heads, but the effects of bias are as though such a puppeteer exists.

The “hidden brain,” in other words, is a metaphor, much like the “selfish gene. € Just as there are no strands of DNA that shout, “Me first! € no part of the human brain is disguised under sunglasses and fedora.

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