Re:Our brain is a storyteller, not a reporter from an inner ...
by s-shellfish on Saturday July 28, 2018 @01:37PM
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I agree with this. I had a heightened degree of anxiety the other day and I wasn't sure why. I'm sure there's a reason, but I couldn't process it. It was completely different than the way I've experienced an awareness of my own emotions my entire life. Always in relation to social environment. Now I seem to just get anxiety over bugs in code. Emotionally connected to my computer. Life is an experience, always new awarenesses to be experienced.
I still don't think there's anything permanent about the functioning of the mind. I think the things one decides to be true that one is allowed to believe are true to the individual are the things that are the most important.
There can be subconscious thought. I've experienced that. There can also be no unconscious thought. I've experienced that.
Theory of mind, always a very tricky subject! Epistomology, cognitive science, theories of intelligence.
I just hope that it doesn't get spun the wrong way. We may not have unconscious "thought", but we certainly do have unconscious "feeling". I haven't read the book (and didn't read the whole interview), but I hope it makes this distinction.