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Typical quote: "all that you do, say, think, hear, see, taste, smell and feel are what the subconscious mind makes you aware of at any one time. The conscious mind is passive." - eadon-com

Below is a transcript of channel 103 chat. Channel 103 is a place where religion is discussed, (atheists battle the Christians). (I am eadon-com by the way.)

eadon-com: the consciousness is passive. The subconscious is the active element

Viking: see these questions have no answers eadon, it is SILLY to claim to know answers

Batman: the subconscious is active??? that makes no sense at all eadon.

eadon-com: it makes perfect sense. It explains why speech "flows out of you" you can't predict what you will say next.

PriestPyramid: I agree with Viking, not all questions have meaningful answers

Isolani: We have opinions not answers. That makes this chatting thingy so much fun.

Batman: the subconscious are the depths of the mind, the massive and passive storeroom for all memories and experiences.

PriestPyramid: the very nature of consciousness itself is a mystery to me

Batman: maybe eadon is just loquacious and speech flows from him...:)

Viking: a human being should acknowledge the limits of his understanding eadon. You are being RELIGIOUS now

eadon-com: yes indeed Viking. But I am willing to admit that my conscious mind is not as powerful as generally admitted

Batman: yes, I DO agree that the subconscious has more play that some may think.

PriestPyramid: I think the 'event horizon' of our knowledge is a layer of paradox

Batman: what about people with speech impediments? do you suggest that they have weak subconsciouses?

Isolani: Batman you cavil.

eadon-com: I have experimental evidence to prove my point: Brain scans. For example: when people are shown computer graphics and are asked to make a decision they are asked to say when they are conscious, CONSCIOUS of making a decision. As it happens the brain scan proves that they have already made the decision before they are Conscious of having make that decision!

Batman: the subconscious is the source of imagination.

Batman: some people are more prone to "listen" to their subconscious than others.

Batman: emotions are also subconscious.

eadon-com: So my observations are based, not on ego; not upon religious-like faith., but on experimental, scientific evidence.

eadon-com: So I am right and you losers are all wrong :)

Batman: hah.

Isolani: Ow, that hurts.

WhiteBeard: I want a re count

Batman: the brain scan does not contain a "zone" which is conscious and subconscious.

TheologeanX: Obviously they have to make a decision before they can truthfully say they've made a decision. I miss the point.

PriestPyramid: I think our emotions are to the Good/value dimension of our experience as our 5 senses are to the time/space/physical universe part of our experience

TyroWarlock: its kind odd to PROVE something is done in the subconscious or conscious mind.. its not something we can really comprehend, and nothing can tell if something you are thinking is in the conscious or subconscious mind..

eadon-com: The experimental evidence is decisive here.

Batman: yes, the decision is made consciously, THEN the "decision to speak about the prior decision" is made.

eadon-com: We can't rely on our brain's intuition alone to determine whether our conscious mind or our subconscious mind is in control. Intuition is worse than useless. Experiment, however, can be a reliable guide.

TyroWarlock: essentially.. EVERYTHING goes on in subconscious.. but you there are two things you can do to call upon something from it, either simply think of something, and run through the links in your brain.. or an external stimuli (something you look at) will demand an automatic link to something else

Isolani: TheologeanX I think meant that there is of course a delay in reacting to the conscious mind's decision with the physical act of 'deciding' (saying, pointing, indicating).

BishopHavoc: surely you jest eadon .. intuition rules

Batman: intuition is purely subconscious.

eadon-com: intuition is often wrong.

Batman: intuition is the imagination that that gave man everything he has...:)

TheologeanX: Intuition resides somewhere other than in the conscious or subconscious?

eadon-com: If intuition ruled, then everyone would instinctively believe in the same god, or lack of one.

TyroWarlock: yes.. intuition IS purely subconscious

Batman: intuition is purely subconscious.

eadon-com: NO!!!1

Batman: yes..

PriestPyramid: maybe

TyroWarlock: yes it is :)

eadon-com: Intuition would not be perceived unless it was conscious!

TyroWarlock: read a book on this..

Batman: intuition has a complementary Conscious counter-part...

TheologeanX: How do we perceive a subconscious?

TyroWarlock: eadon, you are kind of being ignorant here

Batman: probably Reason...

TheologeanX: How do we perceive a subconscious decision?

Batman: he's not being ignorant, he's being backwards. :)

Batman: modern science is garbage at psychology.

eadon-com: Think about this, think about the next tell [chat entry] you make. Did that tell originate from the conscious mind or the subconscious mind? Think about it.

TyroWarlock: eadon, a structure of both

Batman: haha..eadon is that all you have?

TheologeanX: How can we tell the difference?

Isolani: Schopenhauer - not only did he assert the dominance of the emotions and the supreme importance of sexuality but he was even aware of the mechanism of repression - Freud on Schopenhauer

PriestPyramid: My guardian angel tells me that the really good tells come from God. :)

Viking: eadon should start his own religion: Rule 1: You make NO conscious decisions because eadon says so. Rule 2: there is no other rules

PriestPyramid: eadon, never piss off eternal beings armed with flaming swords

TyroWarlock: essentially.. everything your brain works on, whether you consciously THINK about it or not, goes through the subconscious mind

eadon-com: think about this: Everything you say, all that you tell, all that you taste, all that you see, hear or smell is sent to you by the subconscious mind. That is HOW YOU BECOME CONSCOUS OF IT IN THE FIRST PLACE!

Viking: don't stop there eadon

WhiteBeard: did you Isolani?...wonder if I could check it out at the lib?

TyroWarlock: yes.. that is what I said.. everything that is in your conscious mind comes from your subconscious mind.. you're right there eadon. I don't even know what the original damned argument was

Isolani: eadon are you saying that all our sense perceptions are firstly engaged by the subconscious, that they are secondary or tertiary sense "impressions" mediated by the subconscious?

BishopHavoc: here here now what's all the fuss, this circular reasoning is making me dizzy

eadon-com: I'm glad it's making you dizzy BishopHavoc, now you are thinking, questioning your assumptions about how you perceive reality!

Batman: the conscious mind adds structure.

Viking: and everything that is in subconscious mind comes from....????

TyroWarlock: external stimuli Viking. All of your life's experiences, or stimuli that comes from your senses.. yeah and instincts too

Batman: subconscious comes from experiences, instincts...etc. conscious meanderings shoved back into unconsciousness

Viking: the chain does not stop there

Isolani: So Batman our subconscious accumulates, gets larger so to say over time?

Batman: .

eadon-com: VIKING everything starts from input, from the senses

Viking: nonsense

Batman: nope, instinct...archetypes..

Viking: nah

TyroWarlock: what don't you agree with Viking?

eadon-com: Next what happens is that the subconscious analyses the input

Isolani: And the subconscious mediates, that is to say receives impressions prior to the conscious?

Viking: don't cut the chain at some point that is ok with you

eadon-com: the subconscious then tells the conscious mind what to be aware of.

eadon-com: I can prove it! Here goes...

eadon-com: What are you aware of now????

Isolani: Ooof, I never say "prove" in here.

PriestPyramid: Open that door to perception

Isolani: Aldous Huxley PriestPyramid I caught your reference.

PriestPyramid: excellent Isolani

Viking: Doors of Perception by Huxley. He used drugs to open those doors

eadon-com: Are you aware of text on the screen?

Batman: there is always something of a subconscious mediation, either partial or full, for the conscious mind to be able to have a few coherent choices.

eadon-com: let me ask you this!

eadon-com: Are you aware of the smell entering your left nostril

PriestPyramid: Huxley had a model which emphasized the filtering process of the brain

eadon-com: Are you?

eadon-com: Now you are! (If you read my tells)

TyroWarlock: for example.. you have this channel a different color than every one of them. If you are talking in one. your subconscious mind realizes there are a bunch of other chatter going on, but you are only AWARE of this channel

eadon-com: But all this time

TheologeanX: eadon is my subconscious...

TheologeanX: ...telling me what to be aware of

TyroWarlock: good point eadon.. that was similar to mine

eadon-com: your subconscious mind has been aware of the smell entering your left nostril!

eadon-com: and now you are aware because your subconscious has drawn it to your attention!

eadon-com: I rest my case.

TyroWarlock: due to the external stimuli.. of eadon's text on the screen

Isolani: eadon is the father-of-twins figure none of us ever had.

Viking: why do you stop the chain there eadon? Certainly there is smaller components that explain the subconscious

Batman: what about people with Tourettes Syndrome eadon?

TyroWarlock: like what Viking?

Viking: like strings if you wish

TyroWarlock: that's a nervous system disorder right? external stimuli can't get to the brain right. or the brain can't interpret the stimuli..That or I'm thinking of another disease. Tourettes is the random yelling or something right?

TheologeanX: Spontaneous vocalizations

Batman: it when the dude talks, and he doesn't know if he's talkin or thinkin.

TyroWarlock: I'm not sure about that

Batman: seems like the "subconscious decision making mechanism" went to far and enveloped the part of the mind that decides on speaking.

eadon-com: To recap, all that you do, say, think, hear, see, taste, smell and feel are what the subconscious mind makes you aware of at any one time. The conscious mind is passive. It merely acknowledges what the subconscious mind tells it to acknowledge! And nothing more. If you place any more importance upon the role of the conscious mind then consider this.... What made your conscious mind accept that thought???

TheologeanX: Cosmic Subconsciousness !!

BishopHavoc: temple of the subconscious personae

PriestPyramid: I hear it can be proven that consciousness is not possible

Batman: sometimes my subconscious mind will offer me a choice of two or three things to say in a rebuttal.

Viking: start a religion eadon. Anthropic questions have no answers eadon, if you pretend otherwise, you are being religious

TyroWarlock: I always think people that do not believe in the subconscious mind are quite silly.. why don't you just don't believe you have a liver?

eadon-com: When you hit a tennis ball, it is your subconscious hitting that ball. You are only conscious of having hit that ball AFTER it has travelled back over the net.

Batman: hmmm...there is some element of preparedness, but the subconscious doesn't "hit" anything.

Viking: I don't think there is anyone here who does not acknowledge the subconscious. But eadon has made it his God, it seems

TyroWarlock: you're taking it too far there eadon with that tennis ball analogy.

eadon-com: Not at all. There are two paths from the optic nerve.One path from the optic never goes to the conscious mind, the other path from the optic nerve goes to the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind path is faster than the conscious mind path...

TyroWarlock: I don't understand what you disagree with then Viking.. :)

Viking: I disagree with eadon's religion TyroWarlock

TyroWarlock: What religion of his?

Batman: eadon, there is not line in the brain whereby one side of which can be called "Conscious" and the other "Subconscious!"

Isolani: eadon describes the subconscious as a dictator while Viking seems to regard the subconscious as a tutor.

Batman: the anatomy of the brain contains no "Subconscious Lobe."

TyroWarlock: no eadon.. "The subconscious mind path is faster than the conscious mind path" is wrong.. They are just as fast as the other, but the subconscious does seem faster

eadon-com: This has been proven by experiments involving the distinction between optical illusions of the conscious mind and the accuracy of the muscular coordination involved in dynamic manoeuvring of the muscles caused by the subconscious

Viking: science cannot point "subconscious" in the brain, that is where you go wrong

TyroWarlock: If I thought about this enough I could come up with my own personal philosophy on EVERYTHING again

eadon-com: and therefore I am again proven correct by experimental evidence. Your intuition, lads, fails you yet again. :(

TyroWarlock: yes, he was wrong there Viking

DarthDeath: Intuition: SO sucky

eadon-com: Yes it can Viking that is where YOU are wrong. It is easy to do.

TyroWarlock: how?

eadon-com: Easy

Viking: lol, you are too much

TyroWarlock: how?

Batman: I disagree eadon, there is much about the brain we cannot pretend to know.

BishopHavoc: eadon don't you think the subconscious is primarily telling us what NOT to do.. like don't walk outside naked if you don't want to be embarrassed .. and such

Viking: eadon is religious

eadon-com: You simply ask people when they acknowledge conscious experiences and then see what parts of the brain are active during a scan.

wmurdoch: eadon? Religious?

eadon-com: I'm not religious.

TyroWarlock: no.. that's not a sufficient way eadon

Isolani: Playing jazz or writing prose like Kerouac is one thing, determining to solve a mathematical equation is another. Or is it?

TyroWarlock: you are CONSTANTLY using your brain

eadon-com: It is simple experiment.

Viking: it is not simple, again you fail to notice the point

TyroWarlock: you cannot just pretend to not think about something

Viking: they don't even know THEMSELVES whether it was a "conscious" or "unconscious" decision

TyroWarlock: well.. I've got to go.. as for some constructive name calling.. eadon knows a lot about the mind but is still confused on a few things, you'll get it all right soon

eadon-com: Viking it is trivially easy to distinguish between the two. I would have thought you would have known that.

TyroWarlock: its not eadon, you are the only one that is saying that :)

Viking: explain eadon, empty claims make you look silly

Batman: I don't buy your spiel about the "muscular dynamic adjustment of muscles" or whatever eadon. :)

eadon-com: not empty. It is easy...

Viking: lol eadon

PriestPyramid: <the semi-retired angry God of the Old Testament who crushed Sampson and obliterated Sodom suddenly develops an interest in making eadon a personal project>

BishopHavoc: God did not crush Sampson

wmurdoch: Nope, I guess the temple roof did the actual work there.

eadon-com: for example if I report an experience and a scam shows a part of my brain active then it is possible that that part of the brain is part of my conscious experience, where as if I report that I am not conscious of something and parts of my brain are active then it is possible that those parts of my brain are involved in subconscious processes.

Viking: is eadon being serious here, or is this some joke?

eadon-com: There is an easily quantifiable cause and effect going on here.

Batman: I'm familiar with those sorts of tests..

TyroWarlock: but eadon.. that experiment contradicts one of your "givens" that the subconscious is constantly working

Batman: heh

TyroWarlock: and you can't be conscious of what you are not conscious of!

PriestPyramid: picky

TheologeanX: So a brain scan showing which areas are active during prayer provide us with a physical locus for the spirit?

Viking: there is no certain part "conscious" or "subconscious" in the brain eadon, subconscious or conscious do NOT show in the scam

eadon-com: It does VIKING. But you can see, when you make a decision based on a stimulus, that the decision is made before the conscious mind is aware of it.

Viking: only brain activity shows. Was it conscious or subconscious or both?? the scam says nothing about that

BishopHavoc: scam?....Freudian slip

Batman: patients with severed corpus collosa showed entire hemispheres are being subconscious.

TyroWarlock: yes that is also true.. there is no section of the brain you can just cut out that is "subconscious"

Viking: yes TyroWarlock. eadon thinks otherwise it seems

eadon-com: People report being aware of something or they don't. There is corresponding and respective brain activity.

TyroWarlock: no eadon.. I'll use your own thing. Are you conscious of the smells in your left nostril?

TyroWarlock: .. .. you are now!

eadon-com: I am now, TyroWarlock

Viking: know you are giving truth value to those people reporting, LOL

TyroWarlock: you CANNOT be conscious of what you not conscious of.. give any example at all

Viking: uuummmmm, I think that was a conscious decision

Viking: that perhaps wasn't

eadon-com: But I wasn't until TyroWarlock directed my subconscious to the fact.

TyroWarlock: hehe that's kinda cool the way you said that

Viking: see, now eadon's theory is proven

eadon-com: Everything I write is written by my subconscious"! That is the point

wmurdoch: I lost this thread about two screen's worth ago.

Isolani: This seems to be like splitting hairs, it's a gray area, the brain (no pun intended).

TyroWarlock: no no no no eadon

Viking: lol, you parrot you

wmurdoch: A gray area that doesn't "matter," Isolani?

TyroWarlock: <pulls out hairs on his head due to frustration>

TheologeanX: Religious schism is painful to watch.

wmurdoch: I'd pull out my gray hairs if they'd grow back brown again.

eadon-com: Viking and all of you have made an assumption, which you are afraid to question, because you are all closed minded, and so am I

Isolani: Doctrinal difference foment into an altercation - between heathens! This is NEWS!

TyroWarlock: what is this assumption

eadon-com: All of you assume that what you think is a product of choice, of the conscious mind. I challenge that assumption.

Viking: I don't think that

TyroWarlock: didn't we just explain the opposite of that?!?!

Batman: does choice exist eadon?

TyroWarlock: we went in a full circle

eadon-com: I don't think [conscious choice] exists Batman

TyroWarlock: eadon said that about 40 minutes ago I think..

Batman: hmmm...are you attempting to set the stage for a predeterminalism argument?

Isolani: I think it should be clear that Viking's notions are not definitively opposite eadon's and there is much conversation necessary to pinpoint the exact difference between their separate view. Unless eadon actually intends to go into politics.

Viking: free will does exist, trust your senses eadon. Free will is coupled to consciousness

eadon-com: NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I do not trust my senses!

TyroWarlock: oh dear god!! all of our actions are predetermined by!! gasp!! our OWN BRAINS!!!

Batman: one question however: why can't the subconscious, then, be capable of choice?

Viking: you can argue it is an illusion. But what you are saying is, that you don't actually argue it, the stuff that you are made of force you to do it

eadon-com: Batman can you say such an outrageous thing, that free will is coupled to our consciousness?????????????

TheologeanX: eadon posits that the subconscious makes all decisions.

eadon-com: Yes TheologeanX, you are correct, I do

PriestPyramid: Everyone knows that the liver is the seat of consciousness

Viking: but think of this: the stuff you are made of you claim forces your actions. What is that stuff made of?

eadon-com: It is the subconscious mind

Viking: go further

eadon-com: well I already have

wmurdoch: My subconscious is telling my conscious that it better d____ well go feed both of them or the UNconcious is going to take over. Cya.

Isolani: eadon thinks our subconscious directs us, while Viking thinks the subconscious is not trivial and perhaps mediates in some way.

eadon-com: The conscious mind is merely an acknowledgement of what the subconscious mind tells us to obediently observe.

Viking: lets say the smallest component in this universe, the basic building block, be it some "string" "point particle" or something else. You are saying nothing else matters but these tiny things acting according to some laws?

eadon-com: yes, indeed I do believe that is true Viking

TyroWarlock: we only see red, blue and yellow

eadon-com: now that is different

Batman: no, I see purple.

TyroWarlock: there is some 4th color they can see, that we can't

eadon-com: What we "see" is the result of the brain's computations

Batman: not entirely eadon.

TyroWarlock: I would assume it is closest to blue.. because in the color spectrum, which color appears largest to us? blue! there could be another color mixed in there

Viking: "where" do the laws of science exist eadon?

eadon-com: Not true TyroWarlock

Batman: it's all relative TyroWarlock.

DarthDeath: that's what I think

eadon-com: We can see green where red is the predominant colour

Viking: what makes that smallest component go just that certain way and not something else?

TyroWarlock: Well, I'm not sure which is generally largest.. but it would be closest to that one

eadon-com: The brain filters out ambient light to try to determine underlying colour differences.

TyroWarlock: are you gonna babble on all night about this? :)

eadon-com: Well I am being challenged, I should try to explain my insights against adversity

BishopHavoc: subconscious + conscience = will......end of story

Viking: ignorance is a bliss BishopHavoc, you have all the answers

BishopHavoc: I'll dare you blaspheme in here Viking :-)

TyroWarlock: you know what Viking.. even though the smarter people are .. indeed smarter, the ignorant lead happier lives

Viking: I believe so TyroWarlock

PriestPyramid: It is better to be lucky than smart

eadon-com: I think that you are all leading a life of illusion

TyroWarlock: yes, we all do eadon

TheologeanX: We all are your illusion, eadon.

BishopHavoc: its better to be alive than dead.... look into it

TyroWarlock: there's trillions (if not a bigger number) of things we can't sense

eadon-com: you all wilfully go along with the delusion that your conscious minds are making your decision for you, what you see, taste, smell and fell and hear. I am merely pointing out to you that your conscious mind is merely a slave to the subconscious.

TyroWarlock: god dammit eadon no one in here thinks that! :)

TyroWarlock: or if they do they haven't said so, or I'm not paying attention good enough.. one of those 3

Batman: yes, I believe in free will.

Isolani: Ok, Batman just said it.

TheologeanX: Attack !!

BishopHavoc: and slaves should obey their masters .. look into it if you please

eadon-com: You are detecting a tiny fragment of your environment teased from reality by your more knowledgeable subconscious mind and you are actually ignorant of everything except what your subconscious chooses to let you be "aware" of.

Viking: I believe in free will too, though I usually like to question those who claim it for a fact

Isolani: Hey BishopHavoc, I obey my master, not quite as unto the Lord but I put in a quality 11 hr. day every day.

Batman: I'm conscious of a "control panel" of rules which my subconscious uses for sake of wildling away useless data in order for my conscious mind to make a proper decision.

eadon-com: eadon is trying to tell you the unpleasant truth, and hopes you will humour and forgive him

Viking: eadon, you are making a logical fallacy

eadon-com: Freewill is just wishful thinking

Viking: I already told you that chain has no end. Don't stop at subconscious, go further, you will find there is no end

TheologeanX: The subconscious has no freedom, but it chooses amongst alternatives.

Isolani: Yes the chain should not be argued about, it's endless.

Viking: it just goes on and on. You stop at subconscious and claim you have the truth, how silly

eadon-com: I already countered that one. Viking it starts at the senses... we went through this already.

TyroWarlock: you could go on about your nervous system's electrical and magnetic give off's.. auras, psionics. chi energy, all that. Or you could go to learning techniques, functions of the body

Viking: no eadon

JGR: Only eadon could turn the agnostics and the Christians against him....

Isolani: It's involved in our language eadon I think, its severe limitations. You'd have to write a book and supply an index of your own specific definitions to even common words.

Viking: certainly you can explain the "senses" in smaller components and so on and so on, until you arrive to the smallest component of this universe and they you find out, there are no answers anymore, just the mysterious

TyroWarlock: it starts with instinct THEN senses

PriestPyramid: <wonders why a 'dead' universe suddenly 'peoples' itself with self-conscious beings>

Batman: if I make a bad decision, I consciously affect the maxims which control the subconscious information narrowing process to gain wisdom.



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