Within the week, we transitioned from the concept of globalization to the thinking self, an automatic or intuitive and alternative or deliberate processing of stimuli. From the concept of globalization, we learned and understood how the self develops as its own society of the mind, that it is a culture in itself. And through this do we transition from understanding and recognizing the developments that the self can make and what constitutes the self to how the self thinks, hence the thinking self. It is differentiated into two systems, System 1 and System 2. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional while System 2 is logical, effortful, and slower thinking of the mind. Through these concepts can we see how one thinks, how one perceives a situation from different lenses, when one just uses their System 1 it generally leans towards the intuitive definition of the object or person being presented which leads to a bias in the part of the one perceiving. When System 2 is at work, it generally makes the decision more sound and logical, reflecting the person’s ideas and thinking more compared to System 1. When we recognize the existence of both systems can we now perceive and understand how one can think.
The week was not just about the thinking self but also two additional types of the self: experiencing self, and the remembering self. What I learned the most within these two concepts is how one processes experiences. For example, with experiences that cause pain one will more likely choose a longer duration of lower pain than a shorter duration of higher pain, given that the longer duration has more pain overall compared to that of the shorter one.
The Life of Jay 