The word that come to mind while reading this article is ...obfuscating! A deliberate attempt to make it sound lofty and complex.
However...some sentences stand out and are quite relevant.
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Despite the compelling subjective experience of executive self-control, we argue that “consciousness” contains no top-down control processes and that “consciousness” involves no executive, causal, or controlling relationship with any of the familiar psychological processes conventionally attributed to it.
In our view, psychological processing and psychological products are not under the control of consciousness.Most of us believe that what we call “consciousness” is responsible for creating and controlling our mental processes and behavior. The traditional folk usage of the term “consciousness” arguably has two aspects: the experience of “consciousness” and the contents of “consciousness”, our thoughts, beliefs, sensations, percepts, intentions, sense of agency, memories, and emotions.
Over the past 30 years, there has been a slow but growing consensus among some students of the cognitive sciences that many of the contents of “consciousness,” are formed backstage by fast, efficient non-conscious systems.************
There are many other articles by scientists that bring out the predominant role of the unconscious mind in our lives. The conscious mind is said to be like a 'broom closet in a mansion' compared to the unconscious mind.
Bold is mine.
