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Unconscious Mental Phenomena - Evidence For and Against

Deleted User November 03, 2019 at 16:29 3925 views 12 comments
Does the mind contain unconscious phenomena? What is the evidence for and against?

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Isaac November 03, 2019 at 17:10 #348321
Reply to ZzzoneiroCosm

It obviously depends on what you're going to class as 'mind', 'concious' and 'phenomena'. Define the terms in a standard way and there's definitely unconscious mental phenomena. Define them in some idiosyncratic way to make oneself sound more interestingly eccentric, and you can deny anything you like.
Deleted User November 03, 2019 at 17:27 #348324
Conventional definitions.
I like sushi November 03, 2019 at 17:33 #348325
Reply to ZzzoneiroCosm The question makes no sense.
Isaac November 03, 2019 at 17:45 #348330
Quoting ZzzoneiroCosm
Conventional definitions.


Yeah, as Sushi says, with conventional definitions I can't see how the question makes sense. 'Unconscious' is a label given to those mental phenomena which happen (as in neural firing, or good evidence of it) without the subject being aware. So the mental phenomena requiring a label came first. We didn't first speculate that such phenomena might exist and then go looking for evidence of them, we had a whole load of mental phenomena which the subject didn't seem aware of and we came up with a label for them.
Deleted User November 03, 2019 at 18:31 #348334
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a fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen, especially one whose cause or explanation is in question.
Deleted User November 03, 2019 at 18:32 #348335
It was a question asked of me on this forum but with the word "content" in the place of the word "phenomena."

It's possible the question doesn't make sense.
Deleted User November 03, 2019 at 21:37 #348366
Empirical evidence suggests that unconscious phenomena include repressed feelings, automatic skills, subliminal perceptions, and automatic reactions, and possibly also complexes, hidden phobias, and desires. ... These include unconsciousness as a personal habit, being unaware, and intuition.

Unconscious mind - Wikipedia
I like sushi November 04, 2019 at 02:51 #348433
Reply to ZzzoneiroCosm Ask them what they were talking about then or tell us what the question means to you.
Deleted User November 04, 2019 at 02:52 #348434
Quoting I like sushi
Ask them what they were talking about then or tell us what the question means to you.


Thanks. It's still going down over here if you want to chime in:

https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/6421/pronouns-and-gender
Deleted User November 04, 2019 at 02:53 #348435
I tried to move it over to the new thread but no go.
I like sushi November 04, 2019 at 03:03 #348438
Reply to ZzzoneiroCosm I won’t be doing that.
Deleted User November 04, 2019 at 03:06 #348440
Quoting I like sushi
I won’t be doing that.


K.