quantum thought

[Patrick Butlin <patrick.butlin@merton.oxford.ac.uk>]

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I couldn't agree more that the nature of thought changes when we insist on 
making every stage conscious - which I take to be the same thing 
as 'observing' ourselves thinking. In fact I take this to be the crucial 
factor making psycho-therapy effective. For example, when I'm unhappy my 
instinctive is to wallow in it. But this means trying to develop a 
justification for my feelings, bringing each factor to the front of my mind. 
It certainly helps that this creates abstract problems to replace my more 
personal worries, but I think there's also such a big difference in the 
capacities of my conscious and unconscious minds that the nature of my 
unconscious thoughts are inevitably lost.

As for reading recommendations, if you haven't already everyone should read 
Sartre's 'Nausea' which is (as I see it) one long attempted description of 
unconscious philosophy, philosophy as it is 'felt' rather than 'thought'.

Patrick.


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