[Mind's Eye] Re: how does our sub-conscious works?

Interesting psychoanalytic approach; i'm sort of a little closer to
the "technical" school; seems to me that dreams and phantasies are
pretty much the same "stuff" as conscious thought, but without the
coherence, constraints, and "echolocation" of input, cognition, and
the autobiographical self; in that sense, we think (neural mapping)
pretty much 24/7, conscious, subconscious, or otherwise; it's just so
much more elegant when we're conscious, or daydreaming, curiously :).

Re the "great conductor"; in this great cauldron of distributed
mapping, something has to "direct" and prioritise attention; that's
the job of dispositional affect (value), or emotion, through amygdala,
hippocampus, and associated wide area networks. Antonio Damasio has
produced some very interesting, very readable and easily accessible
works in this area.

On Jul 13, 1:51 pm, rigsy03 <rigs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The "great conductor" to where? The sc may color our thoughts and
> actions but I have a problem giving it a thought process similar to
> the ego or super-ego. The fact that we cannot control our sc makes us
> want to control it- it can be dangerous or embarassing or distracting,
> for instance. I do think it adds a dramatic complexity to our thoughts
> and actions- esp. those "Freudian slips"! :-) Another possibilty is
> that the sc is a warehouse for our unresolved selves that pitch and
> twist in our minds during dreams or daydreams and sometimes influence
> solutions by interrupting logic, problem solving, comprehension or
> relationships. It may also serve the purpose of keeping us honest-
> somehow the mind has to find a balance- "acting as if" only goes so
> far.
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> On Jul 13, 5:13 am, paradox <eadohe...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hi Mando, dont forget that our thoughts are also "merely things", and
> > our sub-conscious also "thinks"; "emotion" is the great conductor.
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