Cormac McCarthy’s quote, “The unconscious is a machine for operating an animal,” reveals our primal core. We’re not just logical nodes or computers; heuristics and instinct drive us.
Only half of our brain (left) leans logical; coincidentally, that’s the half that deceives. Clarity can arrive from embracing our animalistic unconscious, letting our holistic, non-linguistic drives (left brain, bodily) arise.