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The Summer of Cormac McCarthy continues \u2013 this time we dive into his\xa0one piece of non-fiction, the short essay \u201cThe Kekul\xe9 Problem.\u201d How\xa0does our unconscious mind solve problems that conscious deliberation\xa0can\u2019t crack? Why does it often work elliptically, in code, rather than\xa0giving us the answer directly in language? Is McCarthy right that the\xa0unconscious doesn\u2019t trust language because it\u2019s such a newcomer to the\xa0human brain?

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"The Kekul\xe9 Problem" by Cormac McCarthy

Pinker & Bloom 1990

Dijksterhuis & Strick 2016

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