Michael Mitchell: Archive

An archive of almost everything I have written, published or shared on the Internet.

Imagination, Emotion, and Cognition | Cutting Edge

June 3rd, 2023 at 4:03AM

Has the distinction between subconscious and fully-conscious awareness been lost and forgotten or never "officially" discovered or intentionally obfuscated? I don't give a fuck how anyone reads my bloody brain scan, I know for a fact I know more than I'm thinking of at any given moment in time, and it doesn't seem possible to me that anyone else doesn't know that as well. It's more than memory, too, more than merely knowledge stored passively somewhere. It's happening as I write this, and I'm in control of it. It's called "focus". There are simply too many things my mind has to...