[ExI] neurology news

[William Flynn Wallace]

 Is it consciousness and disconnected from the part of your brain that can
talk, or is it unconscious? How could you distinguish between those two
possibilities?

Jason

That is exactly what I said in a post just a day or two ago.  It could be
that we have two conscious minds:  the 'unconscious', which is conscious of
all inputs, and the conscious, which is separated from the 'unconscious'
and gets its outputs but is not aware of what is in the unconscious that
does not enter the conscious.  So the unconscious is only unconscious to
the conscious.  It is fully conscious of inputs.  (it was the goal of Freud
to bring unconscious memories to consciousness and dispel them through
catharsis.  This psychotherapy or psychoanalysis was never shown to work in
controlled studies, though current Freudians still make a lot of money from
rich people.)   bill w

On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 9:57 AM Jason Resch <jasonresch at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think we might be making a mistake in delineating parts of our brain or
> functions of our brain as being conscious our unconscious.
>
> For how can we know whether the parts we consider unconscious are
> unconscious rather than separately consciousness, independent, other minds?
>
> Or alternatively, how can we know that their processing, doesn't feed into
> and build up into one's present conscious state?
>
> I think brain bisection cases make clear there is the potential for many
> independent conscious minds or conscious processes to exist within a single
> skull. But we often mistake the part of the brain that can talk as being
> the only one that is conscious. Because, after all it's the only part we as
> outsiders can listen to.
>
> There's a part of your brain that's monitoring and regulating your blood
> pressure. It's aware of your blood pressure, so it can't be a zombie. Is it
> consciousness and disconnected from the part of your brain that can talk,
> or is it unconscious? How could you distinguish between those two
> possibilities?
>
> Jason
>
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2022, 10:33 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> This is news to me.  The cerebellum involved in social behavior?  Wow.
>> That's way down in the brain, far from consciousness.    bill w
>>
>> The cerebellum is essential for sensorimotor control but also contributes
>> to higher cognitive functions including social behaviors.  from
>> Neuroscience News
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