Re: Mind's Eye Re: Motive

I'm not much convinced by the "psychoanalusts" RP - though modern
brain research does show that our real-time decision-making bears
little relation to the ways in which we rationalise it. The little
grey cells are mythical - in fact they are white in colour. You are
describing man as social animal in my view. Various tests tend to
confirm the gist of what you are saying - racism persists amongst
those equipped with politically correct lexicon because of the
'unconscious'. I have 'failed' some of these tests myself but don't
commit the 'offences' despite the 'promptings'. We have even found
the white brain matter is structured differently in paedophiles, that
teenage brains are very different from adult ones and so on.
Connectivity between bits of the brain is also different in serious
criminals (and I suspect banksters). What of the role of culture in
all this?

On 4 Jan, 05:45, RP Singh <123...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Kindly substitute ' matter ' for ' unconscious'  with reference to
> promptings to will.
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> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 7:39 AM, RP Singh <123...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Neil , we know what we are doing but in some cases what we believe our
> > motives for those actions to be are not so , rather the real motives
> > are exact opposites and are buried in the unconscious traceable by the
> > psychoanalysts. The promptings to the ' will ' arise from the ' grey
> > matter ' which is unconscious, and we ourselves arise from the same.
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> > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 4:01 AM, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Do we think a body human if it doesn't know what it is doing RP?  Part
> >> of judgement is allowing for mistakes.
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> >> On 2 Jan, 17:31, RP Singh <123...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Psychologists say that a person's conscious motives are not the real
> >>> determinants of behavior but one's real motives lie in the unconscious and
> >>> one is not aware of them. A person who is obsessed with cleanliness is
> >>> ostensibly a very clean person but in reality he has strong instinctive sex
> >>> drive which get repressed as he cannot accept them.
> >>> The question is that are we to judge ourselves or judged by others for our
> >>> behavior by the conscious motives or the repressed unconscious motives ?
> >>> Clearly we cannot be judged for factors of which we are not even aware even
> >>> though they are the real determinants of our actions.
> >>> The question now arises of our will , is our will free ? Consciously we are
> >>> free , we think and act as we want , we can open or close our hand freely.
> >>> So , we have freedom of choice , and if our will is bound by unconscious
> >>> determinants we cannot be held accountable for them. If unconsciously we
> >>> are selfish and consciously generous , it is our generosity for which we
> >>> can be judged and not the unconscious motive. So , the phantom of Bondage
> >>> evaporates into thin air !
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