Mid-morning. You are waiting
for Jill to arrive for the housecleaning. Carol is taking a quick shower after
straightening up and cleaning the dusty floor in the front closet. You never
noticed the dirt. - Amorella
0953 hours. I did not. We are hardly ever in there,
particularly in the summer. I'm glad I didn't mutter, "It doesn't need
cleaned," before I actually looked. I'm usually observant about things but
dust is not one of them unless the sun is shining just right, then I might wipe
it off of course. A closet is for opening the door and taking something out or
putting it in. Otherwise it is storage and doesn't need to be bothered. Oddly,
I am looking for an analogy here but don't see one.
It's covered with dust, boy. - Amorella
0958 hours. You bring a smile anyway. So simple,
why didn't see it?
It is difficult to see what you are when you are what you want to see.
It's easier for me even looking from the inside, a kind of triangulation
effect. - Amorella
1003 hours. Yes. I can see the outside with a
mirror. I can't see the inside as my information is carried by thought which
non-dimensional.
One dimensional is closer to the truth. I, the Amorella, am closer to
non-dimensional from your perspective.
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non-dimensional
ADJECTIVE
·
1 Lacking dimension; having no extent in any spatial dimension.
·
·
2 Science. Of a physical quantity: having a numerical value independent of
the choice of units of measurement; = "dimensionless". Also (of an
equation): composed of dimensionless terms.
·
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Edwin
Abbott (1838–1926), headmaster and writer. From non- + dimensional.
Selected and edited from - https:// en. oxford
dictionaries dot com/definition/us/non-dimensional
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1014 hours. I'm thinking
'abstract' as non-dimensional.
Abstract is thought generated. - Amorella
1015 hours. You are thought generated too,
Amorella.
I am hardly an abstraction. Besides, I came to you originally not the
other way around. - Amorella
1057 hours. You were from my unconsciousness.
Below is very partial underlined material near the conclusion of the
article that best fits your 'thesis' of how things are with you in terms of the
unconscious mind. You finished editing this near the Lester headstones on the
right and Ertel headstones on the left, facing north on far west north-south
cemetery road of Rose Hill. Earlier you shared an oatmeal at McD's and each has
a diet Coke from your pre-lunch. - Amorella
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Unconscious mind
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The unconscious
mind (or the unconscious) consists of
the processes in the mind which occur automatically and are not available to
introspection, and include thought processes, memories, interests, and
motivations.
Even though these processes exist well
under the surface of conscious awareness
they are theorized to exert an impact on behavior. The term was coined by the
18th-century German Romantic philosopher Friedrich Schelling and later introduced into English by
the poet and essayist Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Empirical evidence suggests that
unconscious phenomena include repressed feelings, automatic skills, subliminal
perceptions, thoughts, habits, and automatic reactions, and possibly also complexes; hidden
phobias and desires.
The concept was popularized by the Austrian
neurologist and psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. In psychoanalytic theory,
unconscious processes are understood to be directly represented in dreams, as
well as in slips of the tongue and jokes.
Thus the unconscious mind can be seen as
the source of dreams and automatic thoughts (those that appear without any apparent
cause), the repository of forgotten memories (that may still be accessible to
consciousness at some later time), and the locus of implicit knowledge (the
things that we have learned so well that we do them without thinking).
It has been argued that consciousness is influenced by other parts of the
mind. These include unconsciousness as a personal habit, being unaware, and
intuition. Phenomena related to semi-consciousness include awakening, implicit
memory, subliminal messages, trances, hypnagogic, and hypnosis. While sleep,
sleepwalking, dreaming, delirium and comas may signal the presence of
unconscious processes, these processes are seen as symptoms rather than the
unconscious mind itself.
Some critics have doubted the existence of
the unconscious.
Historical overview
The
term "unconscious" (German: Unbewusste) was coined by the 18th-century
German Romantic philosopher Friedrich Schelling (in his System of Transcendental, ch. 6, § 3) and
later introduced into English by the poet and essayist Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(in his Biographia Literaria). Some rare earlier instances of the
term "unconsciousness" (Unbewußtseyn) can be
found in the work of the 18th-century German physician and philosopher Ernst
Platner.
Influences
on thinking that originate from outside of an individual's consciousness were
reflected in the ancient ideas of temptation, divine inspiration, and the
predominant role of the gods in affecting motives and actions. The idea of
internalised unconscious processes in the mind was also instigated in antiquity
and has been explored across a wide variety of cultures. Unconscious aspects of
mentality were referred to between 2500 and 600 BC in the Hindu texts known as
the Vedas, found today in Ayurvedic medicine.
Paracelsus is
credited as the first to make mention of an unconscious aspect of cognition in
his work Von den Krankheiten (translates
as "About illnesses", 1567), and his clinical methodology created a
cogent system that is regarded by some as the beginning of modern scientific
psychology. William Shakespeare explored
the role of the unconscious in many
of his plays, without naming it as such. In
addition, Western philosophers such as Arthur Schopenhauer, Baruch Spinoza,
Gottfried Leibniz, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Soren
Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche used
the word unconscious.
In
1880, Edmond Colsenet supports a Elie
Rabier and Alfred Fouillee perform syntheses of the unconscious "at a time
when Freud was not interested in the concept".
Psychology
Psychologist
Jacques Van Rillaer points out that, "the unconscious was not discovered
by Freud. In 1890, when psychoanalysis was still unheard of, William James, in
his monumental treatise on psychology (The
Principles of Psychology), examined the way Schopenhauer, von Hartmann,
Janet, Binet and others had used the term 'unconscious' and
'subconscious'". Historian
of psychology Mark Altschule observes that, "It is difficult—or perhaps
impossible—to find a nineteenth-century psychologist or psychiatrist who did
not recognize unconscious cerebration as not only real but of the highest
importance."
Freud's view
Sigmund Freud and his followers developed an account of the
unconscious mind. It plays an important role in psychoanalysis.
Freud divided the mind into the conscious mind (or the ego) and
the unconscious mind. Later was then further divided into the id
(or instincts and drive) and the superego (or conscience). In this theory, the
unconscious refers to the mental processes of which individuals make themselves
unaware. Freud proposed a vertical and hierachical architecture of human
consciousness: the conscious mind, the preconscious, and the unconscious mind—each
lying beneath the other. He believed that significant psychic events take place
"below the surface" in the unconscious mind, like hidden messages
from the unconscious. He interpreted such events as having both symbolic and
actual significance.
In psychoanalytic terms, the unconscious does not include all
that is not conscious, but rather what is actively repressed from conscious thought
or what a person is averse to knowing consciously. Freud viewed the unconscious
as a repository for socially unacceptable ideas, wishes or desires, traumatic
memories, and painful emotions put out of mind by the mechanism of
psychological repression. However, the contents did not necessarily have to be
solely negative. In the psychoanalytic view, the unconscious is a force that
can only be recognized by its effects—it expresses itself in the symptom. In a
sense, this view places the conscious self as an adversary to its unconscious,
warring to keep the unconscious hidden. Unconscious thoughts are not directly
accessible to ordinary introspection, but are supposed to be capable of being
"tapped" and "interpreted" by special methods and
techniques such as meditation, free association (a method largely introduced by
Freud), dream analysis, and verbal slips (commonly known as a Freudian slip),
examined and conducted during psychoanalysis. Seeing as these unconscious
thoughts are normally cryptic, psychoanalysts are considered experts in
interpreting their messages.
Freud based his concept of the unconscious on a variety of
observations. For example, he considered "slips of the tongue" to be
related to the unconscious in that they often appeared to show a person's true
feelings on a subject. For example, "I decided to take a summer
curse". This example shows a slip of the word "course" where the
speaker accidentally used the word curse which would show that they have
negative feelings about having to do this. Freud noticed that also his
patient's dreams expressed important feelings they were unaware of. After these
observations, he came to the conclusion that psychological disturbances are
largely caused by personal conflicts existing at the unconscious level. His
psychoanalytic theory acts to explain personality, motivation and mental
disorders by focusing on unconscious determinants of behavior.
Freud later used his notion of the unconscious in order to
explain certain kinds of neurotic behavior. The theory of the unconscious was
substantially transformed by later psychiatrists, among them Carl Jung and
Jacques Lacan.
In his
1932/1933 conferences, Freud "proposes to a`bandon the notion of the
unconscious that ambiguous judge".
Jung's view
Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist, developed the concept
further. He agreed with Freud that the unconscious is a determinant of
personality, but he proposed that the unconscious be divided into two layers:
the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious. The personal
unconscious is a reservoir of material that was once conscious but has been
forgotten or suppressed, much like Freud's notion. The collective unconscious,
however, is the deepest level of the psyche, containing the accumulation of
inherited psychic structures and archetypal experiences.
Archetypes are not memories but images with universal meanings that are apparent
in the culture's use of symbols. The collective unconscious is therefore said
to be inherited and contain material of an entire species rather than of an
individual. Every person shares
the collective unconscious with the entire human race, as Jung puts it: [the]
"whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution, born anew in the brain
structure of every individual".
In addition to the structure of the unconscious, Jung differed
from Freud in that he did not believe that sexuality was at the base of all
unconscious thoughts.
Controversy
The notion that the unconscious mind exists at all has been
disputed.
Franz Brentano rejected
the concept of the unconscious in his 1874 book Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint, although his rejection
followed largely from his definitions of consciousness and unconsciousness.
Jean-Paul Sartre offers
a critique of Freud's theory of the unconscious in his Being and Nothingness, based on the claim that consciousness is
essentially self-conscious. Sartre also argues that Freud's theory of
repression is internally flawed. Philosopher Thomas Baldwin argues that
Sartre's argument is based on a misunderstanding of Freud.
Erich Fromm contends
that, "The term 'the unconscious' is actually a mystification (even though
one might use it for reasons of convenience, as I am guilty of doing in these
pages). There is no such thing as the unconscious; there are only
experiences of which we are aware, and others of which we are not aware, that
is, of which we are
unconscious. If I hate a man because I am afraid of him, and if I am aware
of my hate but not of my fear, we may say that my hate is conscious and that my
fear is unconscious; still my fear does not lie in that mysterious place: 'the'
unconscious."
John Searle has
offered a critique of the Freudian unconscious. He argues that the Freudian
cases of shallow, consciously held mental states would be best characterized as
'repressed consciousness,' while the idea of more deeply unconscious mental
states is more problematic. He contends that the very notion of a collection
of "thoughts" that exist in a privileged region of the mind such that
they are in principle never
accessible to conscious
awareness, is incoherent. This is not to imply that there are not
"nonconscious" processes that form the basis of much of conscious
life. Rather, Searle simply claims that to posit the existence of something
that is like a "thought" in every way except for the fact that no one
can ever be aware of it (can never, indeed, "think" it) is an
incoherent concept. To speak of "something" as a "thought"
either implies that it is being thought by a thinker or that it could be
thought by a thinker. Processes that are not causally related to the phenomenon
called thinking are more appropriately called the nonconscious processes of the
brain. . . .
David Holmes examined
sixty years of research about the Freudian concept of "repression",
and concluded that there is no positive evidence for this concept. Given the
lack of evidence for many Freudian hypotheses, some scientific researchers
proposed the existence of unconscious mechanisms that are very different from
the Freudian ones. They speak of a "cognitive unconscious" (John
Kihlstrom), an "adaptive unconscious" (Timothy Wilson), or a "dumb unconscious"
(Loftus & Klinger), which
executes automatic processes but lacks the complex mechanisms of repression and
symbolic return of the repressed.
In modern cognitive psychology, many researchers have sought to
strip the notion of the unconscious from its Freudian heritage, and alternative
terms such as "implicit" or "automatic" have come into
currency. These traditions emphasize the degree to which cognitive processing
happens outside the scope of cognitive awareness, and show that things we are
unaware of can nonetheless influence other cognitive processes as well as
behavior. Active research traditions related to the unconscious include
implicit memory (see priming, implicit attitudes), and nonconscious acquisition
of knowledge (see Lewicki, see also the section on cognitive perspective,
below).
Dreams
Freud
In terms of the unconscious, the purpose of dreams, as stated by
Freud, is to fulfill repressed wishes through the process of dreaming, since
they cannot be fulfilled in real life. For example, if someone was to rob a
store and feel guilty about it, they might dream about a scenario in which
their actions were justified and renders them blameless. Freud asserted that
the wish-fulfilling aspect of the dream may be disguised due to the difficulty
in distinguishing between manifest content and latent content. The manifest
content consists of the plot of a dream at the surface level. The latent
content refers to the hidden or
disguised meaning of the events in the plot. The latent content of the dream is
what supports the idea of wish fulfillment. It represents the intimate
information in the dreamer's current issues and childhood conflict.
Opposing theories
In response to Freud's theory on dreams, other psychologists
have come up with theories to counter his argument. Theorist Rosalind
Cartwright proposed that dreams provide people with the opportunity to act out
and work through everyday problems and emotional issues in a non-real setting
with no consequences. According to her cognitive problem solving view, a large amount
of continuity exists between our waking thought and the thoughts that exist in
dreams. Proponents of this view believe that dreams allow participation in
creative thinking and alternate ways to handle situations when dealing with
personal issues because dreams are not restrained by logic or realism.
In addition to this, Allan Hobson and colleagues came up with the
activation-synthesis hypothesis which
proposes that dreams are simply the side effects of the neural activity in the
brain that produces beta brain waves during REM sleep that are associated with
wakefulness. According to this hypothesis, neurons fire periodically during
sleep in the lower brain levels and thus send random signals to the cortex. The cortex then synthesizes a dream in
reaction to these signals in order to try to make sense of why the brain is
sending them. However, the hypothesis does not state that dreams are
meaningless, it just downplays the role that emotional factors play in
determining dreams.
Contemporary
cognitive psychology
Research
While, historically, the psychoanalytic research tradition was
the first to focus on the phenomenon of unconscious mental activity, there is
an extensive body of conclusive research and knowledge in contemporary
cognitive psychology devoted to
the mental activity that is not mediated by conscious awareness.
Most of that (cognitive) research on unconscious processes has
been done in the mainstream, academic tradition of the information processing
paradigm. As opposed to the psychoanalytic tradition, driven by the
relatively speculative (in the sense of being hard to empirically verify)
theoretical concepts such as the Oedipus complex or Electra complex, the
cognitive tradition of research on unconscious processes is based on relatively
few theoretical assumptions and is very empirically oriented (i.e., it is
mostly data driven). Cognitive research has revealed that automatically, and
clearly outside of conscious awareness, individuals register and acquire more
information than what they can experience through their conscious thoughts.
(See Augusto, 2010, for a recent comprehensive survey.)
Unconscious processing of information about
frequency
For example, an extensive line of research conducted by Hasher
and Zacks has demonstrated that
individuals register information about the frequency of events automatically
(i.e., outside of conscious awareness and without engaging conscious
information processing resources). Moreover, perceivers do this
unintentionally, truly "automatically," regardless of the
instructions they receive, and regardless of the information processing goals
they have. Interestingly, the ability to unconsciously and relatively
accurately tally the frequency of events appears to have little or no relation
to the individual's age, education,
intelligence, or personality, thus it may represent one of the fundamental
building blocks of human orientation in the environment and possibly the
acquisition of procedural knowledge and
experience, in general.
Selected and edited
from Wikipedia - unconscious mind
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1257 hours. I view my own condition as
similar to the last paragraph focusing on Hasher and Zacks' research. Amorella
represents to me a "fundamental building block of human orientation in the
environment and possibly the acquisition of procedural knowledge and
experience." I would say it goes beyond procedural but that may be because
this is how I taught myself (see blog) particularly after sessions with Dr.
Payne, psychologist and hypnotist at the University of Cincinnati sometime in
1982-83 while I was still teaching at Indian Hill High. (1306)
Dr.
Payne had you self-focus on the alternate reality as experienced through
self-hypnosis. He helped you set this up in your brain/mind. I did not exist
here at that time but I understand those days mainly through your unconscious
memories. - Amorella
Putting in your 'mini' subconscious
characters that popped out of your head under self-hypnosis would fit in here.
Shows an early start which in pragmatic learning terms lead you to the adult
likes of your five year old self's "Aunt Jemima" secret childhood
adult friend who looked like Aunt Jemima on the pancake box. All the letter
characters were undeveloped. Dr. Payne thought they were interesting but you
easily explained them from 'characters' you made up playing with the typewriter
back when you were four and five years old. For example: A and B had a boy
named c and they went to the store together. c had a friend named d. (You had a
real Uncle Dee plus a President named FDR.; adults were capital lettered,
children small cap lettered.) - Amorella
It was almost like I was preprogrammed to add a place for you Amorella.
Mid-afternoon. You drove to Marx Bagels in Blue Ash for lunch. Very good tuna, honey
wheat bagel sandwich which you always split. You also had two fresh chocolate
chip cookies. Blessed food always tastes good at John Marx's place (whether he
is in a good mood or not). Presently you are waiting for Carol at Kroger's on
Tylersville. - Amorella
1458 hours. This is so odd that I strongly remain an existentialist when
my early childhood through college growth's mental aspects had a lot of imaginary
serendipities to it, a lot of pop up from seemingly nowhere.
You
are home where you can both relax the afternoon away. One of your immediate
concerns is that you have mentioned many of these things in previous years of
the blog. There must be a reason for it. My opinion is that if you were dead
and gone but still conscious these points or events would still be coming up.
I, the Amorella, do not have the imagination to think otherwise. Post. Take a
break. - Amorella
1534 hours. I don't mind. I keep thinking I'm writing for an audience;
after all, this is what writers do, but truly I am not. You know, imaginary
angels as readers is as good as anything else.
That's
why I mentioned it. You have to be comfortable and quiet inside to write from
heartansoulanmind. Who else would be in there but imaginary angels? - Amorella
1539 hours. A sub-microscopic alien(s) with human-like consciousness.
1549 hours. It's a joke Amorella. Alien(s) just popped into mind.
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