{"id":11333,"date":"2023-01-17T15:57:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T15:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/?p=11333"},"modified":"2023-01-20T20:27:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T20:27:38","slug":"what-is-non-conscious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/cognitive-insights\/what-is-non-conscious","title":{"rendered":"What is Non-Conscious?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3>With \u2018non-conscious\u2019 (<a href=\"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog?p=10320\">not the Freudian subconscious<\/a>) is generally meant: meaningfully mental processing \u2015 not mechanical or straightforwardly reflexive.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Brain and body<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a long time, the mental has been confined (by me, for instance) to the brain, more specifically to mainly <a href=\"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog?p=4629\">mental-neuronal patterns<\/a> in the brain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More and more, however, we see that the brain functions very intricately in connection with the body: neuronal, hormonal, and immunological. These systems are so closely interconnected that we can better think of one complex system. Of course, the brain keeps being the nr. 1 complexity-processor. Two lesser gods are located in the heart and the gut regions. Then, we have a whole lot of footage going on a bit everywhere in the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>An extreme (?) example<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thinking a thought \u2013 any thought \u2013 with or without one\u2019s legs would be a different thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The same with any feeling, any motivation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>But most of this doesn\u2019t reach consciousness.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Continually, we have a very narrow band of what reaches consciousness. A tremendous lot of what goes on mentally stays non-conscious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Better said, it stays non-conscious <em>as such<\/em>, while much of it reaches consciousness through:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>influencing the nascence of any conscious construct (thought, feeling, motivation) from the inside. You don\u2019t feel this because \u2015 it\u2019s non-conscious, precisely. Nevertheless, many recognizable characteristics of our usual thinking are <a href=\"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog?p=9220\">illuminated through this subconceptual process<\/a>.<\/li><li>influencing the body sensorially and motorically. The result of this can reach conscious awareness \u2015 although most of it does not. For instance, influences on minor blood vessels in all parts of the body.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Where does this non-conscious information come from?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The source can be internal or external of the body \u2013 or a complex mixture. External is what immediately comes from outside. If this is recurring information, the non-conscious brain\/mind doesn\u2019t make a strict distinction with an internal origin. It\u2019s all \u2018incoming info.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regarding the internal source, this is non-conscious memory. Its immensity seemingly has no bounds. For instance, a single smell may bring back long-forgotten childhood memories \u2015 meaningful enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A crucial element is that the internal influence <a href=\"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog?p=5142\">isn\u2019t confined to mechanical content<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the contrary, much <a href=\"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog?p=3582\">meaningful processing goes on in the non-conscious level<\/a> of the mind before appearing in consciousness. NO conscious content appears in the human brain\/mind without a preceding nascence in the non-conscious domain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, what we feel as \u2018deep\u2019 \u2013 as in deeply meaningful, deeply touching \u2013 gets this characteristic through the way it is non-consciously processed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In short, your non-conscious mind influences your conscious mind all the way through, and it does so profoundly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Whose is \u2018your\u2019 non-conscious?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, nobody\u2019s. You don\u2019t <em>have<\/em> but <em>are<\/em> this non-conscious \u2015 together with all the rest of you. So, it\u2019s weird to speak of the non-conscious as an alien part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For instance, if you want something, your <a href=\"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog?p=11225\">non-conscious wants something<\/a>. There would not be the latter without the former.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This all is why you better be friends with yourself.<\/p>\n<div data-object_id=\"11333\" class=\"cbxwpbkmarkwrap cbxwpbkmarkwrap_no_cat cbxwpbkmarkwrap-post \"><a  data-redirect-url=\"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11333\"  data-display-label=\"0\" data-show-count=\"0\" data-bookmark-label=\" \"  data-bookmarked-label=\" \"  data-loggedin=\"0\" data-type=\"post\" data-object_id=\"11333\" class=\"cbxwpbkmarktrig  cbxwpbkmarktrig-button-addto\" title=\"Bookmark This\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"cbxwpbkmarktrig-label\"  style=\"display:none;\" > <\/span><\/a> <div  data-type=\"post\" data-object_id=\"11333\" class=\"cbxwpbkmarkguestwrap\" id=\"cbxwpbkmarkguestwrap-11333\"><div class=\"cbxwpbkmarkguest-message\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"cbxwpbkmarkguesttrig_close\"><\/a><h3 class=\"cbxwpbookmark-title cbxwpbookmark-title-login\">Please login to bookmark<\/h3>\n\t\t<form name=\"loginform\" id=\"loginform\" action=\"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/wp-login.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<p class=\"login-username\">\n\t\t\t\t<label for=\"user_login\">Username or Email Address<\/label>\n\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" class=\"input\" value=\"\" size=\"20\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"login-password\">\n\t\t\t\t<label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n\t\t\t\t<input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" class=\"input\" value=\"\" size=\"20\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<p class=\"login-remember\"><label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label><\/p>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"login-submit\">\n\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button button-primary\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11333\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/form><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With \u2018non-conscious\u2019 (not the Freudian subconscious) is generally meant: meaningfully mental processing \u2015 not mechanical or straightforwardly reflexive. 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