The conscious mind “programs” the subconscious mind. Rand's view is that the conscious mind serves as a kind of gate keeper for what ge...

Moral argument for capitalism. In The Mind and Society , Pareto makes the following observation:
 Theories of “natural law” and the “law o...

In the last ten years or so, a number of books have come out examining the role of intuition (i.e., unconscious thinking) in human cognition...

Intuition and tacit knowledge, part 2. In the last Cognitive Revolution post , I introduced Oakeshott's two forms of knowledge, the tec...

Intuition and tacit knowledge, part 1. In the next series of Cognitive Revolution posts, I am going to discuss what I regard as Rand's ...