{"id":86008,"date":"2018-12-20T09:22:44","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T17:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/what-if-consciousness-is-just-a-product-of-our-non-conscious-brain"},"modified":"2018-12-20T09:22:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T17:22:44","slug":"what-if-consciousness-is-just-a-product-of-our-non-conscious-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/what-if-consciousness-is-just-a-product-of-our-non-conscious-brain","title":{"rendered":"What if consciousness is just a product of our non-conscious brain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uhRhtFFhNzQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2019If we are indeed \u201csubjects of unconscious authoring\u201d then continuing to characterise psychological states in terms of being conscious and non-conscious is unhelpful. It constrains the theoretical understanding of psychological processes. \u2018\u2019<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>If consciousness is a by-product of our brains\u2019 nonconscious processes, where does that leave us?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/what-if-consciousness-is-just-a-product-of-our-non-conscious-brain-107973\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/what-if-consciousness-is-just-a-...ain-107973<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018\u2019If we are indeed \u201csubjects of unconscious authoring\u201d then continuing to characterise psychological states in terms of being conscious and non-conscious is unhelpful. It constrains the theoretical understanding of psychological processes. \u2018\u2019 If consciousness is a by-product of our brains\u2019 nonconscious processes, where does that leave us?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}