http://www.uncrediblehallq.net/2008/11/24/wittgensteinism-meets-darwinism/ Best blog name ever Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:27:09 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 http://www.uncrediblehallq.net/2008/11/24/wittgensteinism-meets-darwinism/comment-page-1/#comment-3598 Chris Hallquist Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:45:24 +0000 http://uncrediblehallq.net/blog/?p=206#comment-3598 Caio--The Freud remark was a bit of a throw-away. When I said "Freudian unconscious," I was thinking something very close to Freud's actual model, where you have three homunculi playing a fairly complicated game with well-defined rules. But "unconscious" is a good way to describe some of the processes evolution has left us with. Caio–The Freud remark was a bit of a throw-away. When I said “Freudian unconscious,” I was thinking something very close to Freud’s actual model, where you have three homunculi playing a fairly complicated game with well-defined rules. But “unconscious” is a good way to describe some of the processes evolution has left us with.

]]> http://www.uncrediblehallq.net/2008/11/24/wittgensteinism-meets-darwinism/comment-page-1/#comment-3597 Caio Camargo Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:38:59 +0000 http://uncrediblehallq.net/blog/?p=206#comment-3597 I find it frustrating how skeptics (and I tend to count myself among their numbers) tend to avoid Freud like the plague. Whatever problems I do have with psychoanalytic theory--and I do have plenty--I find the idea of the unconscious quite probable. Not only that, but evolutionary psychology doesn't tell the whole story. It might tell us why our minds are like this, but it doesn't tell us the mental mechanism by which it comes about, or what it looks like on the inside. What is fairly obvious is that there is something we don't (can't, really) access in our minds that makes this sort of decision. I don't understand why you're so resistant against some form of the unconscious as a possible explanation. I find it frustrating how skeptics (and I tend to count myself among their numbers) tend to avoid Freud like the plague. Whatever problems I do have with psychoanalytic theory–and I do have plenty–I find the idea of the unconscious quite probable. Not only that, but evolutionary psychology doesn’t tell the whole story. It might tell us why our minds are like this, but it doesn’t tell us the mental mechanism by which it comes about, or what it looks like on the inside. What is fairly obvious is that there is something we don’t (can’t, really) access in our minds that makes this sort of decision. I don’t understand why you’re so resistant against some form of the unconscious as a possible explanation.

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