Thank you for your reply. > I agree that those are useful words to distinguish. Not "words" but "concepts". Words are just the form of our identifications. Yo

Thank you for your reply. > I agree that those are useful words to distinguish. Not "words" but "concepts". Words are just the form of our identifications. You could be writing the same concepts (or more generally; ideas) in French (different words) but the meaning remains the same. The precision with which you use your words is a sign of the precision with which you use your concepts. > More broadly, I think people are capable of having significantly more access to their "unconscious" than most people realize (hence the scare quotes around the word ;)), and further that those non-logical processes can also be different, and yield better or worse, faster or slower results. A perfect example of my previous comment. The concept "unconscious" should be reserved for boxers knocked out in the ring or a man in surgery under general anesthesia. I like to use "subconscious" for mental processes that I know are going on but I am not consciously aware of. Some of these mental processes can be brought into conscious awareness and some cannot -- I think this is an important aspect of reason. You keep having to use scare quotes because you are groping for this distinction; the subconscious is alive and active and real whereas the unconscious is inactive, dead. > How you actually implement "reason" can make it better or worse, faster or slower, and I've found that people can make significant gains by changing the details of what they are doing with their minds. The most creative and powerful ideas occur subconsciously. I inadvertently discovered the interrupted nap trick.[1] I'd fall asleep with my laptop and when it slipped off my belly I'd wake up with new ideas to attack any problems that I was working on. [1] https://www.fastcompany.com/3023078/leadership-now/how-dali-einstein-and-aristotle-perfected-the-power-nap https://www.fastcompany.com/3023078/leadership-now/how-dali-...