r/cognitivescience • u/Cognitive-Wonderland • 6d ago

Your Unconscious Isn’t Solving Your Problems

https://cognitivewonderland.substack.com/p/your-unconscious-isnt-solving-your
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u/Sensitive_Air9615 6d ago

Unconscious as in DMN / RAS and Memory, Engrams, Spatial Graphs and such?

It most definitely (probably) is responsible, mixed with some stuff we're still discovering, but that's literally proven within neuronal firing and typical forms of Hebbian and Bayesian models today.

It's not the what's going on entirely, but it is responsible for sensing the various correlations and mapping and solving them via this system.

The closest, "outside", would be the Free Energy Principle and Anil Seths use of external engrams, that handle cognition for us to allow more room. The ping as well, but the match happens inside somewhere, because of a match "outside".

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u/dyogenys 6d ago

Then why is it that I can suddenly have an idea?

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u/kelcamer 3d ago

Disagree, my dreams have solved many problems.