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Self-consciousness

2015-12-01 · 2,884 views · license: CC BY-NC 2.0

Self-consciousness — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. The triumph of ontogeny over phylogeny!!! "The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconsc
Self-consciousness — pen and ink drawing

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The triumph of ontogeny over phylogeny!!!

"The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not — which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams." —Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy (1952)

"The study a posteriori of the distribution of consciousness shows it to be exactly such as we might expect in an organ added for the sake of steering a nervous system grown too complex to regulate itself." —William James, The Principles of Psychology (1890)

"If you get into these spaces [non-ordinary states of consciousness] at all, you must forget about them when you come back. You must forget you're omnipotent and omniscient and…

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