There Is an ‘Unconscious,’ but It May Well Be Conscious


" Depth psychology finds empirical validation today in a variety of observations that suggest the presence of causally effective mental processes outside conscious experience. I submit that this is due to misinterpretation of the observations: the subset of consciousness called “meta-consciousness” in the literature is often mistaken for consciousness proper, thereby artificially creating space for an “unconscious.” The implied hypothesis is that all mental processes may in fact be conscious, the appearance of unconsciousness arising from our dependence on self-reflective introspection for gauging awareness." {Credits 1}

This thought is important in relation to the idea defended in this site because we think that consciousness is gradual from mere sense of life to complex egos, and that is formed from same ingredientes, electric and magnetic fields, and that there is a naming overdose to classify what is only a question of degrees.

{Credits 1} 🎪 Kastrup B. (2017). There Is an 'Unconscious,' but It May Well Be Conscious. Europe's journal of psychology, 13(3), 559–572. doi:10.5964/ejop.v13i3.1388. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license.


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