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To me, "unconscious" encompasses all the processes in your brain that you are not aware of, which is most of them. You can become aware of the result of those p
by chousuke 7y ago
To me, "unconscious" encompasses all the processes in your brain that you are not aware of, which is most of them. You can become aware of the result of those processes as they emerge as a phenomenon of consciousness (such as becoming aware that you have made a decision, and possibly even being able to trace your own justification for the decision) but it is not really possible to account for everything.
Most of what we experience consciously is already heavily altered by processes that we have no control over. For example, the brain does a whole bunch of signal processing on the input of your eyes before you consciously see anything.