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Single Idea 12944
[filed under theme 15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 2. Unconscious Mind
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Full Idea
Many errors can flow from the belief that the only perceptions in the soul are the ones of which it is aware.
Gist of Idea
It is a serious mistake to think that we are aware of all of our perceptions
Source
Gottfried Leibniz (New Essays on Human Understanding [1704], 2.01)
Book Ref
Leibniz,Gottfried: 'New Essays on Human Understanding', ed/tr. Remnant/Bennett [CUP 1996], p.116
A Reaction
What a perceptive remark, for its time! I took it that it was only modern neuroscience and psychology which had woken us up to how much non-conscious activity is central to the mind.
The
18 ideas
with the same theme
[workings of mind hidden from consciousness]:
21827
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The movement of Soul is continuous, but we are only aware of the parts of it that are sensed
[Plotinus]
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16634
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I can't be unaware of anything which is in me
[Descartes]
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7118
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La Rochefoucauld's idea of disguised self-love implies an unconscious mind
[Rochefoucauld, by Sartre]
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2603
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If we aren't aware that an idea is innate, the concept of innate is meaningless; if we do, all ideas seem innate
[Locke]
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12944
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It is a serious mistake to think that we are aware of all of our perceptions
[Leibniz]
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19355
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The soul doesn't understand many of its own actions, if perceptions are confused and desires buried
[Leibniz]
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21478
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Half our thinking is unconscious, and we reach conclusions while unaware of premises
[Schopenhauer]
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21369
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We have hidden and unadmitted desires and fears, suppressed because of vanity
[Schopenhauer]
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20116
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Most of our lives, even the important parts, take place outside of consciousness
[Nietzsche]
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20120
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Whatever moves into consciousness becomes thereby much more superficial
[Nietzsche]
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3488
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Freud treats the unconscious as intentional and hence mental
[Freud, by Searle]
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22226
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Since we are a consciousness, Sartre entirely rejected the unconscious mind
[Sartre, by Daigle]
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3486
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Unconscious thoughts are those capable of causing conscious ones
[Searle]
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3503
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Consciousness results directly from brain processes, not from some intermediary like information
[Searle]
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4691
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If all mental life were conscious, we would be unable to see things, or to process speech
[McGinn]
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2964
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How come unconscious states also cause behaviour?
[Lockwood]
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2951
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Could there be unconscious beliefs and desires?
[Lockwood]
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21833
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Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience
[Flanagan]
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