Unconscious processes

Was the above series of events the first intimation that I had that something of importance was connected with a specific date in time and the city of Belem Strangely, no it was not. I must mention the following incident in order to connect the history of my own unconscious processes with the curiously specific and puzzling piece of information that was seeking to emerge from me. 

To be creative in mathematics, you have to start from a point of total oblivion. Basically, math is revealed in a totally unconscious process in which one is completely ignorant of the social climate. And mathematical advance has always been the motor behind the advancement of consciousness. ... 

Roger Evans and Peter Russell (1990) have most usefully dissected creativity into a number of actions while at the same time not losing sight of the need to draw on one s intuition and allow unconscious processes to work for you. A summary of their guidelines for being creative is presented in Box 4.1. 

As for the details needed to flesh out a new model, we must admit that there is more of an opportunity within our reach than there is substantial information in hand. The time is thus ripe for a major program of research that uses our now extensive knowledge of how conscious and unconscious processes are naturally generated and regulated in the diurnal evolution of our states of brain and mind as a foundation for a new comprehensive theory that encompasses the comparative, the evolutionary developmental, intra- and interindividual, and the social levels of analysis. 

The degree of inaccessability of such processes varies. For example, we could distinguish preconscious processes (which can become accessible with effort) from totally unconscious processes (which must remain forever inferential). This sort of elaboration of our model will be left for a future study. 

The basic model that we have been using for clairvoyance (Figure 2-1) can be used for the PMIR if one change is made. The clairvoyance model assumed that our conscious minds activate psi by desiring or otherwise informing unconscious processes or the psi receptor processes to search for and retrieve the desired psi information. In the PMIR model, we must assume that the psi receptor and the unconscious mind are active (at least sometimes, perhaps all the time) whether or not the conscious mind desires this. The scanning of the environment by psi activates unconscious mental processes, which may, in turn, call for more psi, and so on. Finally, this affects conscious mental processes or directly affects behavior and results in need-satisfying action. 

We can ask numerous questions that we don t have answers to yet about this information flow, not only general psychological ones as to how information passes from the unconscious mind to the conscious mind and what sort of transformations our unconscious processes work on information, but even more specific ones about whether psi information is processed in the same or a different way as sensory and memory information is in the unconscious mind. In the telepathic dream reported in Chapter 6, for example, there was a different feeling quality associated with this dream than with ordinary dreams. We also need to know what sort of conditions in the conscious mind can facilitate the flow of information from the unconscious, i.e., how do we draw out information from this normally inaccessible part of the mind What sorts of conscious conditions or actions minimize the distortion that seems to occur in the process Given that our direct, conscious use of psi is so poor, these are very important questions. 

An important related problem is the degree to which a given percipient is at home in his own mind. If his Unconscious processes mainly represent repressed and unaccepted emotions as in ordinary kinds of psychopathology, the direct contact with those possible in some d-ASCs may not aid psi but instead be catastrophic. We should not expect to get more psi simply by putting people more directly in touch with their Unconscious minds. We also need to do some psychotherapy or growth work. 

Implicit Knowledge New Perspectives on Unconscious Processes Daniel L. Schacter... 

Principle 8 Learning always involves conscious and unconscious processes. CTL improves student performance by encouraging active processing of information. 

The reality of unconscious processes, mental or emotional processes that affect us and yet lie outside conscious awareness, is widely accepted in modern psychology. A specific form of unconscious processes, known as perceptual defense, has not been generally accepted, in spite of good experimental evidence for it. The haggling over the reality of perceptual defense has been so intense that I have suspected the idea is being actively resisted. It is too clear a reminder of how mechanical we are. 

To understand the unity or lack of it in our personality, in our selves, we must examine much more than factual memory data associated with a single body. We must include likes and dislikes, values, emotional experiences, hopes and fears, intentions, unconscious processes (healthy and unhealthy), and many more subtle psychological processes. When we consider all of our psychological functioning, honest selfobservation, as well as observation of others, shows us that we are not... 

In the behaviorist model of learning and behavior modification, internal states, subjective impressions, and unconscious processes are not relevant. All that matters is the objective data, ie, only what can be seen, observed, and measured. The behaviorist definition of learning a relatively permanent change in behavior, not due to fatigue, drugs, or maturation. 

As early as 100 years ago, Freud introduced the distinction of conscious and unconscious processes by psychoanalysis. According to Freud, the irresolvable interlocking of both areas constitutes the basic conditions of human psychic life. Reflection and perception of the outside world therefore always bear traces of... 

Lewis-Evans and Rothengatter (2009) also suggest that, as the SMH is central to RAT, it is contradictory to explain that unconscious processes when driving can be mediated by the SMH given the definition of emotions and feelings offered by Damasio, for example ... 

As a function of time and frequency, experiences become over-learned and automated, which basically means that they become handled by unconscious processes. 

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