I think you have misinterpreted my post, HiLo. These days there is little patience on Mudcat for lengthy, somewhat academic posts. But over the years others, as well as myself have posted about how the human brain works, as well about being conscious vs unconscious of biases, which none of us human beings can be free of.

If you choose, will be glad to discuss via pm. Not gonna go there on the forum for three reasons.

The most important reason in terms of today's Mudcat is I don't choose to deal with trolls or to deal with people who have no respect for Mudcat as a community and see it only as an on-line forum, and know from experience a discussion here will likely draw trolls.

The second reason is I have written about how the human brain processes information and the by-products, including over-generalization and stereotyping extensively in the past. So have many others who are part of this community.   I don't need to repeat that information, nor do most folks in the community have any interest in me repeating that info.

Thirdly, and perhaps it should be firstly - I am not a pithy, to the point writer. I'm long winded, precise but not concise - comes from years as a policy writer - great for closing loopholes and minimizing the opportunities for misinterpreting/misapplying public policy by line workers and local administrators, but awful for posting on Mudcat. This already too long post is proof.