> [Krimel] > Why do we all keep talking about pre-linguistic as though it were some > kind of infant experience waiting to "grow-up"? Why not admit that most of
> our experience is non-linguistic and that most of our time is spent in > states of non-consciousness. We only think we are conscious because when > we think about what we are thinking about, we construct a conscious self > out of thin air or rather out of remembered experience. Most of the time > it just ain't there at all. [Ian] Krim, absolutely no such suggestion in what I said ... on the contrary it's our most enlightened expreince. ie I would agree with you ... it's possibly the most important part of all our experiece (always) ... my point is we keep tying each other in knots trying to define it .... intellectually ... ie and that's a bad thing, a waste of intellect. [Krimel] I don't wish to imply that non-consciousness is "enlightened" either. I would claim that it is the vast majority of our experience but if consciousness serves any function at all then it is certainly to "enlighten" non-conscious experience. Consciousness is a distillation of the non-conscious. As Jill Taylor put it, half of our brain is processing parallel streams of non-conscious data, sense data, memory, emotion. The other half of our brain is constructing narrative scenarios of consciousness. Each has a role to play and a function to serve. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
