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    1. Jonathan Haidt takes it even further. His paper is called “The Emotional Dog and Its Rational Tail.” If you look at a dog, you think the tail is making a movement. But is the tail actually making the movement, or is the dog wiggling and is the tail just going along? He says we essentially only have System 1. We make our moral choices from our guts, and then we just use System 2 to defend the thing we already decided. There’s been discussion about whether that’s entirely true. There’s no right or wrong, I guess, because we don’t really know exactly what intuition is. But I think it’s a very nice perspective on how our intuition might be more important than we often think it is.

      The Emtional Dog and Its Rational Tail by Jonathan Haidt 2001 https://protevi.com/john/Morality/HaidtEmotionalDog.pdf which is said to see System 2 of Kahneman as just there to rationalise System 1 in hindsight, it's all System 1. The tail wiggles bc of the dog's movement.