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<div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">When I do a crossword puzzle I seem to 'hear' my unconscious trying to tell me something and if I get the right mind set it will pop up into consciousness. I do not have to make an effort to pull it up. If you do crosswords do you have the same feelings?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">When I go searching for a memory and don't immediately get it, it may pop up a bit later without any effort. Do you go digging in your memory or does it seem to come out from within, as if being pushed. Pull or push?</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">Now we think of our thinking as all consciousness, but I think the unconscious is thinking too but we don't know that (because it is unconscious, duh).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">Haidt, Kahnemann and others have warmed up Freud with their analogies of the elephant and the rider, etc. We conclude from them that most of what goes </span></p>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">on </div>in our thinking department is unconscious.<u></u><u></u><p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">
<span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">Many people on this chat list seem deeply concerned that our intelligence in the future must be higher, as high as possible. I wonder if simply raising IQ through gengineering will do.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">I propose that what we could work on is getting deeper and deeper into our unconscious by making more and more of it conscious. </span></p>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">(Through gengineering, certainly not psychoanalysis or any other such thing.)<br><br></div>We know that the conscious, the rider, often jumps at conclusions, stereotypes and more, all to get as quick an answer as possible, and thus makes a lot of simple mistakes that presumably we would not make if we tapped into the unconscious<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">
, such as judging people by a first and short impression</div>.<br><br><u></u><u></u><p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">When I wake up in the morning I keep my eyes closed and sometimes go back to sleep but often just wait a few minutes before getting up. Now I have noticed that the moment I get up is not really planned (like "I am getting up on the count of 3.") My body moves out of bed in at unpredictable time. I am a bit surprised, that is, to find myself moving. See if this happens to you. If it does then I say that our unconscious is moving us out of bed for reasons of its own, such as the conscious thought of coffee, in my case.</span></p>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"> (Yeah, bladder too.) A lot of what we do is not conscious and so we often don't know what we are thinking or going to do until we think or do it.</div>
<u></u><u></u><p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">I think a lot of cognitive biases could be fixed by making much of the unconscious conscious, and we would end up being much more intelligent than our IQ could account for.</span></p>
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We will never be able to catch up to the computers in sheer speed. Making quantum leaps in creativity, however, is our bag and never will be theirs.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">
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