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

Yes- that is too technical for me. :-) I see the sc as the hidden
currents of a river- at least this morning that's my view. Where do
you think imagination and creativity spring from? Or unexplainable
moods? Or the irrational? Don't be too technical, please.

On Jul 14, 3:36 am, paradox <eadohe...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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 :).
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> 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.
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> On Jul 13, 1:51 pm, rigsy03 <rigs...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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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> > > On Jul 12, 2:18 pm, Mando <richsu...@gmail.com> wrote:
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