You didn't care to go into detail. I see. You consider it ok to speak generally and not worry about distinguishing between basic terms and getting too technical.
Well I agree. It's totally okay to do that. We can have a much more interesting discussion that way. I'm looking forward.
Since we're getting into pictures. Crystal, memory, pretty images oh myyy...
This is the subject of exactly 1 paragraph in a cell biol text I own which is comprised of over 1200 pages. Its implicated in long term potentiation, and thus, related to behavioral memory.
That's a good point. To which I have no answer, since I don't know the link between memory and the subconscious. Interesting.
One issue I would say in relation is that, since we equate free will with conscious decision, I'm not sure that the agency of the subconscious mind can be considered free will, instead of just another cause causing effect on the conscious mind and determining choices.
Beautiful...
問「武」。曰:「克。」未達。曰:「勝己之私之謂克。」
And since we can't quantify consciousness we can't determine the degree to which the unconscious influences the conscious (I'm willing to bet its close to 90%). The unconscious is likely where behavioral conditioning is expressed (if it is 'expressed' at any level of consciousness at all) and that could be considered memory.
A man buys a nice car, not because he likes nice cars but because he knows women like nice cars. Conscious agency in a complex casual chain driven by the subconscious expression of a biological drive, mitigated by behavioral conditioning (memory?).
Memory conditions unfreewill.
QED BITCHES
I think he lucked out that this segment of "What the Bleep Does 人大海 Know" happened to center on his area of professional expertise.
I can play too,
In the programming language of your choice write a function that takes an NxN array and rotates it 90 degrees clockwise.
Possibly, given the entire 3 posts of this individual's existence are directed toward yours truly (should I be blushing?)
That said, this is the process. I "cross train" in chemistry and physics and logic and philosophy [I don't consider logic and phi to be the same; personally (and I guess this could be another thread) I consider all the above to be subsets of logic, but anyways] and math (well to be fair math is the MMA to my kung fu, aka it makes me its b!tch). Its just that chem is the medium for which the laws of physics express themselves biologically. I'm not a professional chemist by any stretch. Which sort of puts to task the ludicrous notion that laypersons cannot engage a subject at its technical level.
The only programming language I am vaguely familiar with is one section of c++ years ago. Damn you unfreewill! Damn you! I did finally manage to apply enough math to crank out a basic dynamic state bioenergetics model. Granted it wasn't really programming, more an interpretive language.
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Yes, so how exactly does the subconscious utilize memory when it's ordering the conscious mind to fuck, eat and shit?
The behavioral conditioning = memory is a conflation of declarative memory / procedural memory / hardwired behaviors. Neuro-biologically we know almost as little about memory as we do about consciousness.
Modern analytical philosophy and computer science can both be reduced to mathematical logic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus