Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The truth is that our unconscious minds are active, purposeful, and independent. Hidden they may be, but their effects are anything but, for they play a critical role in shaping the way our conscious minds experience and respond to the world.
Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the others, the brain rationalizes the outcome after the fact and concocts the impression that a single self was in charge all along.
Every aspect of our lives plays out in two versions: one conscious, which we are constantly aware of, and the other unconscious, which remains hidden from us.
No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.
Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature.
Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.
The genetic you and the neural you aren't alternatives to the conscious you. They are its foundations.
Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in.
Consciousness allows you the capacity to plan.
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