The second element to consciousness is excerptation. This is the ability to recall selected descriptive elements of a particular concept relevant to our experience. For example, if I ask you to think of an amusement park, you may first think of a Ferris wheel, a dart game you were good at, or maybe the shady looking carny who once stood in front of the balloon targets in order to prevent you from winning the good prizes. In all these cases, you are taking an excerpt from the total experience as representative of the whole.…
Cormac McCarthy’s novel, The Road, conveys a father and his son traveling the roads of what is left from the earth-shattering events that led to the world consumed in flames of evil and death devouring the good and humanity until what remained of mankind was forsaken to walk in the ash of morals and rationality that would mask the earth in darkness. As the father and son scavenge in the remnants of cities, they are faced with trials of reason, sordid cannibalism, and scarring images of the ill repute. These trials prove dreadfully obstinate juxtaposed to modern situations that need coping with. By means of these variations of reality, the man relives his pasts, nightmares, and subconscious intrusions on his life. Cormac McCarthy relates a theme of envisages that relays the devastation of the society in which only peace in one’s mind can lead to surrendering to a personified death among the man and child by constant use of abetting diction and uncanny imagery.…
|The unconscious |All the thoughts,ideas, and feelings of which we are not and normally cannot become aware. |…
Unconsciousness - all the ideas, thoughts, and feelings of which we are not and normally cannot become aware…
He takes the view that we as human beings’ know that there is such a thing as consciousness, we have all felt it and consequently, for us, it exists. If someone were to tell us ‘imagine the colour blue’, we could easily do so. Even though we do not know if the other person imagined the same blue as we did, we are able to imagine more or less the same thing as the other person. This thinking process was conscious and with therefore we have proof that we experience our consciousness, arguably every day. This, of course, makes it easier to understand the concept of conscious thinking. The task of understanding the adap-tive unconscious proves so difficult because we do not have the first-hand proof, we have with our consciousness. We are unable to feel the adaptive unconscious’ presence. If we would have to think about the last time we made a decision unconsciously, we would be unable to answer the question. Timothy Wilson does a good job of describing this phenom-enon by just explaining how we would react if we were to lose our non-conscious mind. How would our day be different if we lost the ability to make decisions and process information…
The term non-conscious is used to refer to processes, which are not mediated by conscious awareness. We are referring to processes that one carries out automatically, they are thus well rehearse and practiced; therefore, the processes are not currently in consciously awareness. For example; driving a car, riding a bicycle, carrying out a habit or daily routine etc. The activity and thought processes behind it, are well rehearsed and practiced consequently, they have become non-conscious. The thoughts and behaviours are conducted automatically and therefore frequently do not come to conscious…
Conscious - Where we actively think and perceive things around us. It is what we are currently aware of and can recall.…
Consciousness: awareness of the outside world and one’s own mental processes, thoughts, feelings, and perceptions…
. Consciousness consists of a random flow of thoughts, feelings, memories and sensations that pass freely through our mind that's endless and that there is never a gap between two thoughts.…
Rapid eye movement sleep, a recurring sleep stage during which vivid dreams occur (also known as paradoxical sleep – muscles relaxed, other body systems active)…
Campbell says that consciousness is something that the mind uses to guide you to a certain direction or towards a set of purposes. Consciousness is all your thoughts at a deeper level and your awareness or perception of your surroundings. Your consciousness depends on your level of energy that leads us to higher level consciousness. What leads you to these levels of consciousness? Myth. Mythology transforms your consciousness on a deeper level and to a higher spiritual level. You can not develop your consciousness without mythology…
My theory states that the unconscious is something very deep. We as individuals do not understand what is all going on in our unconscious. We can uncover parts of ourselves that we may not have known about, but we will never be able to know or understand everything about ourselves. I believe that the unconscious is a positive reinforcement that keep us going in our daily lives. There are times we get depressed, some more than others, yet we are able to try and seek help or push through day to day. No matter how bad we know we feel we still fight.…
In the words of cognitive neuropsychologist Kaspar Meyer, “what is now clear is that the brain is not a stimulus-driven robot that directly translates the outer world into a conscious experience. What we’re conscious of is what the brain makes us be conscious of, and in the absence of incoming signals, bits of memories tucked away can be enough for a brain to get started with”. Reality for each individual differs according to their past experiences and memories, as well as what they choose to perceive to be true.…
Textbook example of his personality theory- overcoming childhood weakness and inferiority to shape his destiny…
2. Subconscious- The level of mind through which materials passes on the way towards full consciousness; an information store containing memories that are momentarily outside of awareness but that can easily be brought into consciousness.…