Habit thought of as unintelligent

In Gilbert Ryle's book, The Concept of Mind (1949), he rejected the idea that habits were intelligent. Instead, he thought habits were an unintelligent way of responding to the world.

Other influential philosophers held the same view, including Baruch Spinoza, Immanuel Kant and Henri Bergson. Even today, many think of habits as rigid patterns of behaviour that are naturally activated by context prompts.