Ask Mark 3.4 - Which came first: Conscious or Unconscious? (podcast)
Channel: UCT CILT
Date: 2016-05-03

Ask Mark 3.4 - Which came first: Conscious or Unconscious? (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: In the development of the human mind, what comes first: conscious or unconscious? Is a newborn baby capable of consciousness, or does it “dawn” at him at some point? In other words, do you think that everything is conscious at first, then becomes unconscious because it a) becomes automatic, b) is repressed? Or, is everything unconscious at first, then some parts of the mind become conscious?