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So at T1 brain-state X is unconscious to you. At T2, T3, T4 and T5, brain-state Y is conscious to you. You note the similarities between T1, T2, T3, T...

Generally, yes. Arguing by analogy is inherently imprecise. In this case, certainly, yes. A mind or brain is far more complex than a car alarm. There'...

Are there unconscious brainstates?

It's different because car alarms aren't minds. It's not a precise or useful analogy.

I might substitute "conscious" for "present". And instead of "thoughts that we aren't aware of" I might say "unconscious cognitive structures that may...

Not necessarily because of. Possibly because of. Definitely in correlation with.

Okay. I disagree but it's not important. Moving on. Please explain what you take issue with in this scenario: At T2, T3, T4 and T5 I behaved in such a...

Put more precisely: At T2, T3, T4 and T5 I behaved in such and such a way in light of thought-pattern X. Thought pattern X was present and conscious a...

Explain what you take issue with in this scenario: Through self-examination I discover that at T2, T3, T4 and T5 I behaved in such and such a way in l...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality

To this: Through self-examination I discover that at T2, T3, T4 and T5 I behaved in such and such a way in light of thought-pattern X. Considering T1,...

There's plenty of evidence vis-a-vis the continuity of personality. Through self-examination I discover that at T2, T3, T4 and T5 I behaved in such an...

...the process of internalizing the norms and ideologies of society. Socialization encompasses both learning and teaching and is thus "the means by wh...

Is this your belief or is this the absolute truth of the situation?

That's a dogmatic assertion that you can't possibly defend (except with more dogma).

It's a well-known phenomenon and as clear as it needs to be. It even has its own wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialization

You don't believe that brain states (thoughts) can cause behaviors?

From this statement it appears you don't accept that a person can engage in self-examination to learn more about his past behavior.

Thanks!

Let's suppose you decide to be unkind to X. You're conscious of no special criteria underpinning your decision to be unkind. You're curious about this...

You tried to do that. But it turns out all you did was post on a philosophy forum.

But to return to your criteria for practicing kindness. Let me use your language: You may think you have no set criteria for practicing kindness but i...

That's an extreme variety of physicalism. I suppose if you hold the image of a tree in your mind you make the attempt via the intellect to reduce this...

One trouble with leaping from the psychological to the physical in a description of the mind is - one is no longer describing the mind. I say obscure ...

What I call "unconscious mental content" you call "brain states with the potential to create mental content." You leap from the psychological to the p...

In fact, all I have to do to explode your definition of mental content is add - memories. Most reasonable people would agree, memories are mental cont...

Your definition of mental content is esoteric and arguable.

I've already agreed the memory in question takes a different form in its conscious and unconscious states. When I'm unconscious of the obscure memory ...

You claim it isn't mental content. So I have to ask: Is it nonmental content? If it's nonmental content, what specific kind of nonmental content is it...

Do you accept that an obscure memory ("not available to introspection") can blip into consciousness?

You accept that a memory can blip into consciousness.

From your statement it appears you do believe in unconscious mental content. But you have a question about the form it takes. Its form is unknown. It'...

Nishitani's Religion and Nothingness is interesting too.

Sartre's Being and Nothingness is pretty interesting.

K.

I tried to move it over to the new thread but no go.

Thanks. It's still going down over here if you want to chime in: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/6421/pronouns-and-gender

Also I felt it was important to assert (having a passion for psychology) that although you have no criteria, visible in consciousness, for the applica...

A preemption: A wide variety of memories "are not available to introspection" but rather blip into consciousness by way of an unknown mechanism and im...

Again from the wiki page: The Unconscious Mind. The unconscious mind (or the unconscious) consists of the processes in the mind which occur automatica...

If you'd like to defend your naysay vis-a-vis a phenomenon almost universally accepted in modern psychology, I'm listening. For example: If an obscure...

Just an aside. I gave you my opinion: If you don't believe in unconscious mental content, you likely haven't read very deeply in psychology and have l...

I'm here to argue about kindness and its connection to the pronoun debate.

I recommend you stop playing them.

I didn't say the idea of unconscious mental content doesn't make sense. I said the consensus on the thread I created (so far) is that your question do...

I'm not interested in debating the existence of unconscious mental content so you're not "going to have an interesting/worthwhile conversation with " ...

The unconscious mind (or the unconscious) consists of the processes in the mind which occur automatically and are not available to introspection, and ...

Empirical evidence suggests that unconscious phenomena include repressed feelings, automatic skills, subliminal perceptions, and automatic reactions, ...