Professor Paul Bloom: I actually want to begin by going back to Freud and hitting a couple of loose ends.
There was a point in my lecture on Wednesday where I skipped over some parts.
I said, "We don't have time for this" and I just whipped past it.
And I couldn't sleep over the weekend.
I've been tormented.
I shouldn't have skipped that and I want to hit--Let me tell you why I skipped it.
The discussion I skipped was the discussion of why we would have an unconscious at all.
So, I was talking about the scientifically respectable ideas of Freud and I want to talk about some new ideas about why there could be an unconscious.
Now, the reason why I skipped it is I'm not sure this is the best way to look at the question.
As we will learn throughout the course, by far the vast majority of what our brains do, the vast majority of what our minds do, is unconscious and we're unaware of it.
