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From: sarge@thirdi.UUCP (Sarge Gerbode)
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: Re: Emotion
Message-ID: <359@thirdi.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 88 21:16:22 GMT
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Organization: Institute for Research in Metapsychology
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Keywords: emotion drives physiology consciousness
Summary: We *can* be aware without being aware we are aware.

In article <972@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> vu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu
(Cliff Joslyn) writes:
>[C]an I be conscious (aware) of somthing without being self-conscious
>(self-aware)?  This is also the KK thesis: if I know something, do I know I
>know it?

I think it is quite possible to be aware of something without being aware that
one is aware of it.  This is what Polanyi calls "subsidiary awareness", as
opposed to "focal" awareness.  Otherwise, we'd have all our "RAM" tied up in
endless feedback loops all the time.  I think the same applies to KK:
probably of most things I know, I have never thought about whether I know them
or not.

A similar loop exists with intentions:  one can intend without intending
to intend, I believe.
-- 
"Absolute knowledge means never having to change your mind."

Sarge Gerbode
Institute for Research in Metapsychology
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Palo Alto, CA 94301
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