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While Jungian archetypes describe compelling characters in terms of mythology, I don't believe they represent fundamental dimensions of the unconscious mind. O
by CuriouslyC 9y ago
While Jungian archetypes describe compelling characters in terms of mythology, I don't believe they represent fundamental dimensions of the unconscious mind. Our neural wiring is unique enough that I don't think it can be reduced that way. If you look at brain activation in response to stimuli, it's remarkably inconsistent between individuals.
I do like the idea that Tarot cards let people more easily assume alternate positions with conviction. If this is accompanied by a mystical experience all the better - as long as it doesn't lead to doing something stupid.
- 52-6F-62 9y agoYet the brain still relies on hierarchies of models (or archetypes) to make any sense of the world at all. I mean, surely there is little variation in what people consider a nose or the sensation from touching a bumpy surface and how they would describe it. (I'm speculating here, of course.) Thee difference you're referring to in activation in response to stimuli, as I understand it, is a result of the way and timeline that the models were learned, but it doesn't change the fact that the cortex relies on hierarchies of models to form a representation that we understand to be reality. That is, if I understand you correctly and am not too outdated here.