Yourself?

who are you anyway. just interested

The universe must be governed by rules. Why? Because rules are the foundations of complexity. Without rules, each and every instance must be uniquely defined. For example. The set of whole numbers as we know it is generated from a set of rules, that each consecutive whole number is one greater than the one before. That whole numbers do not posess decimal places, nor are imaginary. Of course, the rules can be changed. That in itself, is a rule, and the entity that makes that change, is similarly guided by a set of rules, things like motive, purpose etc.

I think you've a point. The limitation of the conscious mind (I have to be exceedingly careful here) is focus, or in other words, purpose. Our conscious mind sees only one thing at a time. It may be very quick in finding answers, or jumping from topic to topic, but the fact that we have a conscious directable mind, limits us, because we must direct it TO something.

The unconscious mind therefore, is the next step up. I doubt that the conscious mind can ever fully evaluate something higher up in order, just like the body can never evaluate the mind in body language. We can express the results of the higher order process, but we cannot understand the workings of that higher order process. The unconscious is the lack of choice. It has no overseer. It has no eventual purpose. It works, because it was made to do so. I breathe without thinking. I twitch my toes without thinking, shiver in cold without thinking, salivate without thinking.

I don't know. Now it seems like a trinity.

I was about to say that the unconscious is an embodiment of cause and effect. We respond to stimuli we may not even notice. But where does the stimuli come from? The body.

No. I'm leaving this here for discussion's sake. But I do not agree with the body part, nor the trinity part. I want to believe, that the unconscious mind, is the code that drives our consciousness. It is the humming bit of machinery just beyond our ken, that we can neither taste nor touch nor experience. It gives us the impulse to think about things, do certain things, the initial cause, which would result in a huge cascade of events. But why and where does this "cause" arise from, I cannot begin to fathom.

posted by Downhere. @ 9:09 pm