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Single Idea 19355
[filed under theme 15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 2. Unconscious Mind
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Full Idea
The soul does many things without knowing how it does them - when it does them by means of confused perceptions and unconscious inclinations or appetites.
Gist of Idea
The soul doesn't understand many of its own actions, if perceptions are confused and desires buried
Source
Gottfried Leibniz (On Note L to Bayle's 'Rorarius' [1705], [L])
Book Ref
Leibniz,Gottfried: 'Philosophical Texts', ed/tr. Woolhouse R/Francks,R [OUP 1998], p.238
A Reaction
This increasingly strikes me as a wonderful and important insight for its time. He's really paid attention to his own mind, and given up the simplistic view that derives from Descartes. Are birds conscious? Yes or no! Silly.
Related Idea
Idea 19356
Minds unconsciously count vibration beats in music, and enjoy it when they coincide [Leibniz]
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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