unconsciousness
- "unconsciousness" is an unnatural category that privileges consciousness
- it's like talking about "the part of the world that isn't part of the British Empire" or "heathens"
- > Scientologists call non-Scientologists wogs. Jehovah’s Witnesses call non-JWs worldly. Mormons call non-Mormons gentiles. I don’t identify as a wog or as worldly or as a gentile any more than I identify as cis.
- (Fwiw, "consciousness" seems to refer to multiple things as well, but that's on a more boring dimension, I think.)
- phenomenal consciousness: the suchness of qualia, interiority, subjectivity
- reflective consciousness: the capacity for self-knowledge, introspection, and reporting on the contents of your mind
- also this
- The main things that people are referring to when they talk about unconsciousness are probably these 3:
- the right hemisphere
- the limbic system (aka emotional brain)
- "System 1" processes as in ones that happen immediately & automatically
- like "unconsciousness", this is a confused category for most people, who have fused both of the above 2 things into it - see Against "System 1" and "System 2" by Kaj Sotala
- (maybe also something more like "the part of the nervous system that isn't even in the skull but is in the spine, stomach, patterns of muscle tension, etc)
- (maybe also sur-conscious things like the collective unconscious, memetic invisible hand, etc)
- I also left a long comment on the above Kaj post, that explicitly differentiates all of these somewhat:
- I also have rants about this on twitter
- also this
5 linked references
Podcast summaries
- 1:26:21 - 1:33:37 - Is the conscious mind a solely passive mind? Change doesn't just happen unconsciousness Hemispheres & Self-improvement
October 22nd, 2020
- (edit this from my LW comment)
"unnatural" is unnatural
- unconsciousness page talks about how it's an unnatural category, like "heathen"
Comparing Bio-Emotive and Focusing
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- Went to Ann Weiser Cornell's intro workshop Oct 2017... found it mildly interesting but it still felt fake compared to when I learned BioEmotive. I don't think it's actually fake, I just think Focusing is confused about whether it wants to be tapping the right brain unconsciousness or the limbic unconsciousness, and Bio-Emotive benefits from being very very explicit about its limbic focus.