24-08-2024, 06:45 PM
You would have to define so many terms in this post to even begin.
If the subconscious were useful in itself, why would it necessarily follow that nothing else could emerge on top of it? Or in other words, why does usefulness have to be the metric of why all features of the mind come about?
And how do you know the subconscious and the conscious are two discrete systems. What if it is a matter of difference in degree not difference in kind.
Any characterization of the subconscious would inevitably project features of consciousness onto it since we can only access it from the perspective of consciousness anyway.
If the subconscious were useful in itself, why would it necessarily follow that nothing else could emerge on top of it? Or in other words, why does usefulness have to be the metric of why all features of the mind come about?
And how do you know the subconscious and the conscious are two discrete systems. What if it is a matter of difference in degree not difference in kind.
Any characterization of the subconscious would inevitably project features of consciousness onto it since we can only access it from the perspective of consciousness anyway.
