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It's wild how people don't acknowledge the subconscious mind or care to examine or experiment with how the conscious and subconscious mind interact. Even subcon
by CTDOCodebases 3y ago
It's wild how people don't acknowledge the subconscious mind or care to examine or experiment with how the conscious and subconscious mind interact. Even subconscious is a bad word for it. Outer conscious would be better.
- HPsquared 3y agoI'd call the conscious the "outer" and the subconscious the "inner". It's hidden inside the black box. See also the structure of the brain (neocortex is on the outside, built on top of the other layers).
- CTDOCodebases 3y agoWhy would you call the conscious the outer though if the conscious does not directly experience what we refer to as the external world? i.e it appears to be filtered through the subconscious.
- uoaei 3y agoMy mental model is that the ego is a shield that separates the space of thought into subconscious and conscious parts, and it moves its boundaries to draw shadows (in the Jungian sense) around parts of the subconscious for the purpose of self-coherence and self-preservation.
- CTDOCodebases 3y agoWould it be fair to say that according to your mental model it casts a shadow on those parts but reflects light other parts? As a side note I'm both amused and curious why my original comment currently has negative votes. I would think that there would be many people here that share that sentiment though I guess some people find it scary to question the nature of reality.
- dyno12345 3y agoIt might be because psychological science has long since given up on these concepts as unscientific.