Subconscious mind is huge
Subconscious mind is huge
It not only creates the reality that the conscious mind experience. It is also responsible for even the motion of your fingers and for that it needs to have access to our thoughts. That is true since we, conscious minds, do not actively get involved in activating the motion of our bodies.
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Do you believe that the subconscious mind literally creates material things? Or do you believe that there are no real material things (they're just mental phenomena that do not seem like mental phenomena)?bahman wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 12:15 am It not only creates the reality that the conscious mind experience. It is also responsible for even the motion of your fingers and for that it needs to have access to our thoughts. That is true since we, conscious minds, do not actively get involved in activating the motion of our bodies.
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There is no such thing as the subconscious. It's the invention of the crackpot Anna Freud to explain her so-called defense mechanisms.bahman wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 12:15 am It not only creates the reality that the conscious mind experience. It is also responsible for even the motion of your fingers and for that it needs to have access to our thoughts. That is true since we, conscious minds, do not actively get involved in activating the motion of our bodies.
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It creates mental, what conscious mind experiences for example.Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 1:26 pmDo you believe that the subconscious mind literally creates material things?bahman wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 12:15 am It not only creates the reality that the conscious mind experience. It is also responsible for even the motion of your fingers and for that it needs to have access to our thoughts. That is true since we, conscious minds, do not actively get involved in activating the motion of our bodies.
I think that there are material things. I don't know what they are.Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 1:26 pm Or do you believe that there are no real material things (they're just mental phenomena that do not seem like mental phenomena)?
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Let me give you an example. The motion of different parts of your body is initiated in different parts of your brain. Is that you, conscious mind, who is in charge of stimulating different parts of your brain?RCSaunders wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 9:48 pmThere is no such thing as the subconscious. It's the invention of the crackpot Anna Freud to explain her so-called defense mechanisms.bahman wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 12:15 am It not only creates the reality that the conscious mind experience. It is also responsible for even the motion of your fingers and for that it needs to have access to our thoughts. That is true since we, conscious minds, do not actively get involved in activating the motion of our bodies.
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The conscious mind doesn't only experience mental things, does it?bahman wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 11:52 pmIt creates mental, what conscious mind experiences for example.Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 1:26 pmDo you believe that the subconscious mind literally creates material things?bahman wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 12:15 am It not only creates the reality that the conscious mind experience. It is also responsible for even the motion of your fingers and for that it needs to have access to our thoughts. That is true since we, conscious minds, do not actively get involved in activating the motion of our bodies.
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Even if you were right, what would that have to do with something called the, "subconscious?" However, your description of the relationship between conscious choice and physical action is wrong. The conscious choice does not initiate a physical event, because the choice and the action are not separate things, but two parts or aspects of the same phenomenon. The action is the physical part, the choice is the living part. Like the behavior of any living cell, every action is both physical and living, but no living behavior is possible to a non-living entity.bahman wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 11:56 pmLet me give you an example. The motion of different parts of your body is initiated in different parts of your brain. Is that you, conscious mind, who is in charge of stimulating different parts of your brain?RCSaunders wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 9:48 pmThere is no such thing as the subconscious. It's the invention of the crackpot Anna Freud to explain her so-called defense mechanisms.bahman wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 12:15 am It not only creates the reality that the conscious mind experience. It is also responsible for even the motion of your fingers and for that it needs to have access to our thoughts. That is true since we, conscious minds, do not actively get involved in activating the motion of our bodies.
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No, it does only experience mental things.Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 12:32 amThe conscious mind doesn't only experience mental things, does it?bahman wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 11:52 pmIt creates mental, what conscious mind experiences for example.Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 1:26 pm
Do you believe that the subconscious mind literally creates material things?
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It has to be a mind since otherwise, it cannot cause change. Any change requires a mind and I have an argument for it. Call it whatever you like.RCSaunders wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 12:47 amEven if you were right, what would that have to do with something called the, "subconscious?"bahman wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 11:56 pmLet me give you an example. The motion of different parts of your body is initiated in different parts of your brain. Is that you, conscious mind, who is in charge of stimulating different parts of your brain?RCSaunders wrote: ↑Fri May 28, 2021 9:48 pm
There is no such thing as the subconscious. It's the invention of the crackpot Anna Freud to explain her so-called defense mechanisms.
We are dealing with two phenomena, conscious choice, and physical movement. What I am claiming is that it is through a subconscious activity that a conscious choice is translated to physical movement. That is very clear. Our conscious mind does not directly stimulate different parts of the brain for movement.RCSaunders wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 12:47 am However, your description of the relationship between conscious choice and physical action is wrong. The conscious choice does not initiate a physical event, because the choice and the action are not separate things, but two parts or aspects of the same phenomenon. The action is the physical part, the choice is the living part. Like the behavior of any living cell, every action is both physical and living, but no living behavior is possible to a non-living entity.
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Right, so some of what consciousness experiences isn't created by the mind, then.bahman wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 4:30 amNo, it does only experience mental things.Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 12:32 amThe conscious mind doesn't only experience mental things, does it?
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Not at all. Most choice does not involve any physical movement at all, because most choice is about what one thinks. When one decides to act overtly it is never a, "choice followed by an action," but always a continuous integrated act between consciousness and the physical behavior. It isn't like your childish view of volition: the thought, "hand move," followed by the hand doing something on its own, or even a thought followed by some event in the brain. The events that occur in the brain and can be detected (though very poorly) are associated with physical actions, because those brain events are associated with consciousness, some related to motor nerves related to specific physical actions.bahman wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 4:38 amIt has to be a mind since otherwise, it cannot cause change. Any change requires a mind and I have an argument for it. Call it whatever you like.RCSaunders wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 12:47 amEven if you were right, what would that have to do with something called the, "subconscious?"
We are dealing with two phenomena, conscious choice, and physical movement.RCSaunders wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 12:47 am However, your description of the relationship between conscious choice and physical action is wrong. The conscious choice does not initiate a physical event, because the choice and the action are not separate things, but two parts or aspects of the same phenomenon. The action is the physical part, the choice is the living part. Like the behavior of any living cell, every action is both physical and living, but no living behavior is possible to a non-living entity.
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I think so. Other minds probably.Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 1:33 pmRight, so some of what consciousness experiences isn't created by the mind, then.bahman wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 4:30 amNo, it does only experience mental things.Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 12:32 am
The conscious mind doesn't only experience mental things, does it?
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I am specifically interested in the phenomena of moving the body rather than thoughts.RCSaunders wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 4:42 pmNot at all. Most choice does not involve any physical movement at all, because most choice is about what one thinks. When one decides to act overtly it is never a, "choice followed by an action," but always a continuous integrated act between consciousness and the physical behavior. It isn't like your childish view of volition: the thought, "hand move," followed by the hand doing something on its own, or even a thought followed by some event in the brain. The events that occur in the brain and can be detected (though very poorly) are associated with physical actions, because those brain events are associated with consciousness, some related to motor nerves related to specific physical actions.bahman wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 4:38 amIt has to be a mind since otherwise, it cannot cause change. Any change requires a mind and I have an argument for it. Call it whatever you like.RCSaunders wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 12:47 am
Even if you were right, what would that have to do with something called the, "subconscious?"
We are dealing with two phenomena, conscious choice, and physical movement.RCSaunders wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 12:47 am However, your description of the relationship between conscious choice and physical action is wrong. The conscious choice does not initiate a physical event, because the choice and the action are not separate things, but two parts or aspects of the same phenomenon. The action is the physical part, the choice is the living part. Like the behavior of any living cell, every action is both physical and living, but no living behavior is possible to a non-living entity.
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OK!bahman wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 10:39 pmI am specifically interested in the phenomena of moving the body rather than thoughts.RCSaunders wrote: ↑Sat May 29, 2021 4:42 pmNot at all. Most choice does not involve any physical movement at all, because most choice is about what one thinks. When one decides to act overtly it is never a, "choice followed by an action," but always a continuous integrated act between consciousness and the physical behavior. It isn't like your childish view of volition: the thought, "hand move," followed by the hand doing something on its own, or even a thought followed by some event in the brain. The events that occur in the brain and can be detected (though very poorly) are associated with physical actions, because those brain events are associated with consciousness, some related to motor nerves related to specific physical actions.