Re: Study shows brain can learn without really trying

From: Kenneth Van Oost (Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be)
Date: Wed Nov 28 2001 - 19:42:46 GMT

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Subject: Re: Study shows brain can learn without really trying
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 20:42:46 +0100
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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Dace <edace@earthlink.net>
    To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
    Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 4:54 AM
    Subject: Re: Study shows brain can learn without really trying
    Hi Ted,
    You wrote,

    > The important distinction is that consciousness is something that inheres
    > exclusively to the individual mind, while the unconscious is species-wide,
    > embracing all of us. It's the set of instincts according to which every
    > human mind operates. Occupying a kind of twilight zone is the
    subconscious
    > mind, which is individual despite being unconscious.

    << Are you saying here that the human ( individual) causative neural traces
    are all similar ( equal) due to that they are on a subconscious, than
    species-
    wide level !?
    If yes, where does the difference depends upon to get different cultural
    effects_ ( probably you will answer on genes, but anyway...)
    1_ species- bound ( cultural effects all quite similar ( we all eat with
    knife
    and fork for example)

    2_ individual ( depending on the context, so to speak)

    Regards,

    Kenneth

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