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face=Arial>From: Micha Berger via Avodah
<avodah@lists.aishdas.org><BR><BR>>>BTW, Cognitive Behavioral
Therapy, which is quite popular among practicing<BR>O therapists -- at least
here in the States -- assumes there is an<BR>unconscious.<<<BR><BR>--
<BR>Micha
Berger
<BR>micha@aishdas.org
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<DIV>I believe I can prove there is an unconscious although I can't prove
there's a "deep unconscious" that influences our conscious behavior. I can
prove that there is at the very least a "shallow unconscious" that goes on
working without our awareness. My proof is logical, experiential:</DIV>
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<DIV>This is a common occurrence that all of us humans have experienced.
You are talking to a friend and trying to remember the name of a book you once
read or the name of a certain person or a word that exactly describes what
you're trying to say, but even though it's "on the tip of your tongue" you just
can't remember it. You say to your friend, "Never mind, I just can't
remember it" and you go on talking about something else. Suddenly, a
little while later, the name you were trying to remember or the word you just
couldn't dredge up suddenly pops into your head right in the middle of a
sentence about something else entirely. Or the forgotten name or word may
pop into your head later that day while you're shopping or reading
something unrelated. It is obvious that while you were consciously doing
whatever you were doing, some unconscious process in your brain continued to
search for the missing word.</DIV>
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<DIV>For many years I had a certain mental image of what was going on when this
kind of thing happens. I pictured stacks and stacks in a library and a
little mental librarian running up and down the aisles and searching the
stacks. When she finds what she's looking for (what you're looking for)
she flags it, bursts into your consciousness and shouts, "I found it, here it
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<DIV>In recent years I have formed a different image: not a librarian in
your brain but a computer process going on in the background, searching the
files on your computer while you are sending emails and watching videos of
laughing babies. When the program finds what you were searching for, a
pop-up literally pops up on your screen -- the screen of your brain -- and
announces, "Here it is, what you were looking for!"</DIV>
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<DIV>Librarian or computer search process -- whatever it is, it is obviously
operating in the background without your conscious awareness. So your
brain certainly has an unconscious.</DIV>
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<DIV><B><BR><FONT color=#0000ff>--Toby Katz<BR>t613k@aol.com</FONT><FONT lang=0
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