Ask Mark 3.3 - Relationship between unconscious and conscious (podcast)
Channel: UCT CILT
Date: 2016-05-03

Ask Mark 3.3 - Relationship between unconscious and conscious (podcast)

Professor Mark Solms from the University of Cape Town (UCT) a question (see below) posed to him on UCT's free online course, "What is a Mind?", hosted by FutureLearn. For more information on visit http://bit.ly/1JB2Dxf .

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Question: I’m intrigued by the relationship between the unconscious and the conscious. Manifestly, the unconscious is itself capable of promoting its ‘cogitations’ up into consciousness…very familiar to me as the ‘go to bed with a problem wake up with a solution’ pattern which characterised much of my working life. But what is the mechanism by which the conscious mind decides and then acts on making something conscious unconscious?