It has taken me several years to control the evils that I have encountered. My depression, which was unbearable for several years, is under control. Evil thoughts are less frequent and they are not as dense and persistent as past. I am doing well with my subconscious mind right now. As a result, I am more creative compared to the past. So, yes, we can manage the hard situation. I am, however, not sure how to divert evils to something useful for me and others. Do you know how to do that?

Gotye & Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know

Philosophy often looks at the problem of consciousness, but the idea of the subconscious may get overlooked. It involves layers of memories and conditioned programmes. The subconscious may manifest itself in so many ways, dreams or unexpected conscious experiences. The intricate relationship between subjective experiences, memory and time may be an essential aspect of juggling the here and now with wider, expansive understanding of life and how 'reality' becomes manifest in lived experiences. — Jack Cummins

Correct.

Cher - Believe

Anathema - Flying - Explosion of the Heart



Anathema - Deep



Anathema - The Lost Song Part 2

Rob Zombie - Demon Speeding

All your thoughts are your own responsibility, and thus due to you. — DifferentiatingEgg

Each person has a world beneath, so-called the subconscious mind. I would say that most of our emotions are rooted in the subconscious mind, since the conscious mind, although in charge of controlling things, is very simple.

I understand what you are trying to say. Life could be very difficult when we are facing challenges. The challenges are due to others or ourselves. I had a very difficult period in my life, too, and I fought the best I could. I still feel evil thoughts and intentions even now, which I am sure are not due to me, and I can handle them easily now. So, I think, everything for you is a matter of time. Once you reach a level where you are sure that you can control everything on a personal level, then you can manage your life better.

When the world seems to be full of butterfly effects, starting from our conception (or our parents meeting, or our grandparents meeting), it looks like we have a huge effect. Especially if we have children, who then have children. — ssu

Yes. The butterfly effects are significant. If the sperm that made me had been just a little slower, then another sperm would have met the egg, so there would have been another person. The butterfly effects also play a significant role in the life of a person, especially when it comes to decisions, since our lives fork at the point of decision. A little like or dislike makes us decide otherwise, so it changes the life of the person and the lives of others as well. A person who comes up with an excellent idea may change the history of humankind.

Megadeth - Symphony Of Destruction

Yngwie J. Malmsteen -- Icarus' Dream Suite Op. 4

Gnarls Barkley - Crazy



Gnarls Barkley - Crazy

Fear in the future comes from the bad experience in the past. Bad experience comes from bad people. Forgiving is forgetting. If you manage to forgive the past, then you can live in the present and open your arms to what the future brings to you.

Garbage - The World Is Not Enough LIVE

i think it's a theory rather than a definition. Most people who understand how to use the word consciousness do not attribute it to matter in general. — bert1

Correct.

You make a good point that theories or definitions might exclude consciousness from being casually efficacious. It needs some extra work to defend the causal efficacy of consciousness if all it is is the capacity to feel. — bert1

What I am trying to say is that the consciousness/experience is a mental event. It cannot have a property since it is a property itself within the property dualism; therefore, the experience cannot affect the physical. It is not a matter of extra work. It is impossible.

Depends on your wording. Does mass have the ability to warp spacetime? — Patterner

Mass does not warp spacetime; a substance that has mass warps spacetime.

That was you who defined consciousness as the property by which matter subjectively experiences! Now, you are saying this property, consciousness, has the ability to cause as well. You don't notice that a property cannot have ability.

If you say so. Saying yes, however, does not make the claim true.

It can. It is. Here we are, after all. — Patterner

No!

Consciousness is the property by which matter subjectively experiences. — Patterner

Correct. That is an acceptable definition of consciousness. Consciousness, given this definition, cannot be causally efficacious in the material world.

Like an invisible jellyfish floating inside the skull? — frank

The mind is irreducible, but can be present in several places simultaneously. So, yes, like a jellyfish floating inside the skull.

My views are similar in ways, and different in others. I say consciousness is an irreducible property with the ability to experience and cause. — Patterner

A property cannot have any ability.

So it's a fleeting activity in the mind which can be exported and recalled (if we are lucky). — Jack2848

Correct. We can, however, focus on an idea so we can experience it as long as we wish.

The content of the idea will be some relationship between objects? — Jack2848

Yes. The idea also refers to a single object.

Clubbed to death - Matrix soundtrack

Correct. We/the conscious minds, are living in a simulation.

Yngwie Malmsteen - Icarus' Dream Suite Op. 4

Tomaso Albinoni - Adagio in G Minor

Mental events are not substances, but the mind is? — Patterner

The mind is an irreducible substance with the ability to experience, freely decide, and cause.

The mind is irreducible yet can be omnipresent. I have never had an omnipresent experience, but people who meditate deeply report such an experience.

Unless you are wrong, and mental events within the property dualism do have causal power. — Patterner

Mental events are not substances, so they cannot have any physical properties to affect the brain.

Yes, that's how I see it. — Patterner

Cool! :wink:

(Although I'm on the property dualism side instead of substance dualism.) — Patterner

Mental events within the property dualism do not have causal power, so the property dualism is not acceptable.

Yngwie Malmsteen - Arpeggios From Hell - Tina S Cover



Yngwie Malmsteen - Arpeggios From Hell

I don't think our minds feel. The body feels, and our mind makes us aware of the feeling. — Athena

Feeling is a sort of experience, so that is the mind that experiences that sort of Qualia, so-called feeling.

I think our subconscious fills our consciousness with thoughts — Athena

The subconscious mind constantly fills the memory of the conscious mind with ideas, feelings, etc.

and this is not always helpful because it can be working with a memory that is harmful and draws a person back to a past that is not beneficial to the present. This is why people see a psychiatrist. — Athena

Correct.

I don't know exactly what ideas are, but I think of them as something we're abstracting out of situations. — frank

I already defined an idea, so I repeat: An idea is an irreducible mental event that is meaningful and is distinguishable from other ideas. We have the ability to create new ideas given the situations we are therein. You are correct on saying: "I think of them as something we're abstracting out of situations". So you know what ideas are. :wink:

What do you mean? An AI does not have access to ideas.

Donald Davidson says rationality requires understanding the concept of truth. I don't see how an AI would do that. — frank

AI cannot understand anything since it does not have access to ideas; an idea is an irreducible mental event that is meaningful and is distinguishable from other ideas.

An idea is an irreducible mental event that is meaningful and is distinguishable from other ideas.

Do you have a solution to that problem with substance dualism? — Patterner

There is an interaction between two substances. The mind is a light substance, so it affects the matter slightly. So it is difficult to measure the contribution of the mind in the process in the brain.

"The mind is that which thinks, feels, perceives, imagines, remembers, and wills."
For thinking, you at least need two minds, so-called the conscious mind and the subconscious mind. Feelings belong to the subconscious mind, as the conscious mind has a limited memory. Both the conscious and the subconscious mind experience different sorts of things. Imagination is a process with the aim of creating a new idea. The imagination is the main duty of the conscious mind. Both the conscious mind and the subconscious mind are involved in recalling.

Jeff Beck - Behind The Veil