# Consciousness Is Just a Feeling

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## Metadata
- Author: [[Luba Ostashevsky]]
- Full Title: Consciousness Is Just a Feeling
- Category: #articles
- URL: http://nautil.us/issue/98/mind/consciousness-is-just-a-feeling

## Highlights
- A thought in its most basic form is about choice. If you don’t have to make a choice, then it can all happen automatically. I’m now faced with two alternatives and I need to decide which one I’m going to do. Consciousness enables you to make those choices because it contributes value. Thinking goes on unconsciously until you’re in a state of uncertainty as to what to do. Then you need feeling to feel your way through the problem. The bulk of our cognition—our day-to-day psychological life—goes on unconsciously.
- The only point of learning from past events is to better predict future events.