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Special Report


The

Br a i n’s

Autopilot

Mechanism

Steers

Consciousness

Freud’s notion of a dark,
libidinous unconscious
is obsolete. A new theory
holds that the brain
produces a continuous
stream of unconscious
predictions

By Steve Ayan


STEWART SUTTON

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