Unconscious knowledge: A survey

Augusto, Luis

doi:10.2478/v10053-008-0081-5

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“…Dienes & Berry, 1997). These findings have been reported in tasks using sequence learning, artificial grammars, and complex simulated systems in the context of learning, and, now in the context of memory, in tasks of priming and skill performance (for reviews, see, e.g., Augusto, 2010;Cleeremans, 1997;Schacter, 1992;Shanks, 2005).…”

Section: Implicitness Vs Explicitness In Cognitive Psychologymentioning

confidence: 73%

“…The visual agnosias are paramount in this paradigm (see Augusto, 2010) and SCRs have long been seen as an appropriate dissociation measure (e.g., Bauer, 1984). A particularly interesting visual agnosia, given the exceptional importance of faces in the study of unconscious cognition (Axelrod et al, 2015), is prosopagnosia.…”

Section: Covert Vs Overt Cognitive Processing/representationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Today, we have the scientific means to approach this hypothesis, and investigation into this field now permeates the whole of psychology and cognitive science. In fact, more than sufficient contributions are today available to constitute a sub-discipline of unconscious cognition (see Augusto, 2010).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Lost in dissociation: The main paradigms in unconscious cognition

Augusto

2016

Consciousness and Cognition

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Contemporary studies in unconscious cognition are essentially founded on dissociation, i.e., on how it dissociates with respect to conscious mental processes and representations. This is claimed to be in so many and diverse ways that one is often lost in dissociation. In order to reduce this state of confusion we here carry out two major tasks: based on the central distinction between cognitive processes and representations, we identify and isolate the main dissociation paradigms; we then critically analyze their key tenets and reported findings.

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Section: Implicitness Vs Explicitness In Cognitive Psychologymentioning

confidence: 73%

Section: Covert Vs Overt Cognitive Processing/representationsmentioning

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Lost in dissociation: The main paradigms in unconscious cognition

Augusto

2016

Consciousness and Cognition

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“…301-365). Indeed, this is the very foundation of depth psychology and relatively recent results in neuroscience corroborate it [34][35][36]. Therefore, that a part of us has experiences that another part of us has no introspective access to, and therefore cannot report, can be elegantly explained by nested dissociation without any need to postulate anything outside consciousness itself.…”

Section: Criticisms Of the Proposed Ontologymentioning

confidence: 89%

An Ontological Solution to the Mind-Body Problem

Kastrup

2017

Philosophies

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I argue for an idealist ontology consistent with empirical observations, which seeks to explain the facts of nature more parsimoniously than physicalism and bottom-up panpsychism. This ontology also attempts to offer more explanatory power than both physicalism and bottom-up panpsychism, in that it does not fall prey to either the 'hard problem of consciousness' or the 'subject combination problem', respectively. It can be summarized as follows: spatially unbound consciousness is posited to be nature's sole ontological primitive. We, as well as all other living organisms, are dissociated alters of this unbound consciousness. The universe we see around us is the extrinsic appearance of phenomenality surrounding-but dissociated from-our alter. The living organisms we share the world with are the extrinsic appearances of other dissociated alters. As such, the challenge to artificially create individualized consciousness becomes synonymous with the challenge to artificially induce abiogenesis.

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“…Intuition provides us "instinctive" judgments (without analytical reasoning) for possible choices within a decision-making process that cannot be empirically verified or rationally justified, bridging the gap between the conscious and unconscious parts of our mind. There is no magic however, as the intuitive decisions have grounds within an "implicit memory" (a kind of unconscious knowledge), which, according to Augusto (2010), is a product of unconscious perception and cognition. Rational decision-making does not leave much room for emotions (Livet, 2010), while the intuitive decisions may have important emotional grounds (Barnes & Thagard, 1996).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%