Unconscious Thought Theory

[liveonearth]

Last night while at a Sierra Club meeting involving the effort to hasten decommission of the Columbia Generating Station (nuke at Hanford), I started having all manner of thoughts about my book on homeopathy. I brainstormed my intro and some chapter ideas on the same page where I'd taken a few notes about newly understood seismic activity in the

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[bobby1933]

This notion fits in well with psychoanalytic (a theory does not have to be correct to be productive)ideas of the unconscious such as those presented by Fritz Kunkel in the forties and fifties. They found the source of creativity to be the "preconscious" (i call it unlabeled awareness --perhaps it is where mystics go to connect with the universe?) Where the preconscious touches the unconscious artistic creativity is said to occur, where the preconscious touches the conscious mind scientific creativity occurs. i think there is definitely something to it.

[liveonearth]

My experience confirms it as well. Preconsciousness, or unlabelled awareness sounds like what I might call "beingness". A state of existing with sensory input and emotions intact, but the categorizing part of the brain temporarily asleep.

[neptunia67]

I do my best thinking while I'm not thinking at all. I believe it's one of the reasons I enjoy sitting at the wheel so much. Working with the clay allows my left brain to ruminate on things.

When I was in school and had to write a paper I'd do a rough outline and come back to it a couple of days later... then a couple of days later... over and over until I'd get it right.

I believe there is power in UTT.