11-19-2015, 03:30 AM
(11-14-2015, 06:31 PM)yeah! Wrote: So you dont think that all conscious thought floats up from the subconscious?
If this is true I doubt free will could exist at all.
The subconscious records all of what we are aware of on all five physical sensory "channels", and everything we are not consciously aware of, but as to thoughts and cognition I currently believe that we have levels of awareness and different parts of our awareness as well. It's not just black and white, conscious and subconscious; you have levels of conscious awareness and levels of subconscious awareness, and some parts are capable of contradicting other parts on both sides of the fence.
Some experiments I have done suggest that there are both emotional and non-emotional parts to the subconscious side of awareness and the conscious side of awareness. The subconscious emotional part may experience fear, while the non-emotional part does not. Interacting with them may produce vastly different reactions to the same stimulus.
We do not possess "free will" the way we consciously would like to believe we do. Most of our actions are really based on a set of primarily subconscious beliefs and their results as we execute them without even knowing we are doing so. They are routine, reactive, repetitive and predictable. That is not to say we have no free will; witness the person whose subconscious attempts to keep them at 300+ pounds and their conscious desire fights to lose the weight. But it is most likely that unless those subconscious beliefs that create and maintain the state are changed, conscious efforts of free will may be defeated or subtly directed and shaped by subconscious programming that we consciously do not realize we have or are executing.
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