I've pretty much been fascinated by pretty much one topic more than anything else

which is trying to understand the mind.

Since I was a kid, surrounded by the Buddhist, my dad's Buddhist books and my mom's books on Freud and Young and Rank and Ericsson.

And I've just been, the two I just was fascinated in trying to get a handle.

The mind is of course very complex experience to impact.

Probably what makes it so difficult to impact is how much of the mind we are unaware.

Ever since the advent of what we could call the beginning of modern psychology,

which one would probably safely date with

Freud, Jung, and the American William James

uh... would be

the recognition

that each of these great psychologists had that the mind is not an entire

unified single experience that it's split. split between what? Split between the conscious

thoughts and awareness that we can volitionally die everything that you can point to right now and anything that you can

hold as something that is part of your conscious experience.

But then there are also those parts of the mind that we are not aware of.

One is called the subconscious and the subconscious is the realm of all the

motor mechanisms, the

what's called implicit memories and skills that you don't need to oversee. For instance, you can probably walk around and think about something without making sure that your left foot

You can move in front of your right and then you're right in front of your left.

You walk without thinking about any You walk without thinking about it. You tire shoes without thinking

about it. You probably sit in a chair without being aware of everything you're doing.

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