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  • Lausten replied to the topic The psychology of belief in the forum Religion and Secularism 5 years, 4 months ago

    The subconscious is a very good no-nonsense fact evaluating machine and, whether we like the fact or not, the subconscious is always going to judge it based on the information available to us.

    I tried reading on past this, but you’ve drawn conclusions based on nothing that I’m familiar with and in contradiction to what I am familiar with. The scientific method is based on the idea that we can fool ourselves and that our desires will skew our interpretation of facts. You are saying the opposite. I can’t even figure out what you mean by “whether we like it or not”. Whether what part of us likes it? Doesn’t liking imply feelings and subconscious emotions?

    In the end you say,

    Keep in mind here, by the way, that I’m not talking about the subconscious in the same way that psychology usually does.  In psychology the subconscious usually deals with feelings and emotions and such.  I’m talking about the purely analytical subconscious here, the background worker which analyzes reality for us and tells us what is real and what is not.

    So, you kinda made up a definition of subconscious? Based on what?