A Theory of Human Hypercognition

[Syne]

I've taught you about many of these, including priming, evolutionary psychology, cognitive bias, and other subconscious cognition.

But above, you seem to attribute genius wholly to the subconscious. As I said, if you reduce genius to subconscious brain function alone, you are also reducing every other characteristic of a person to the material of the brain.

Plenty of people are reductive materialists, and you're free to be one yourself. But... that seems to undermine your OP about transcending the brain. It's as if you have a knee-jerk reaction that undermined your original point.

[Magical Realist]

But above, you seem to attribute genius wholly to the subconscious. As I said, if you reduce genius to subconscious brain function alone, you are also reducing every other characteristic of a person to the material of the brain.

If genius were wholly unconscious, it would never occur to anyone consciously as inspiration or thinking or creative imagination. The fact that it does means it is partially unconscious and partially conscious, accessible to some thru intention or intuition, and to others as spontaneous and insightful "light bulb" moments. There are even accounts of people receiving "strokes of genius" in their dreams, for instance the helical structure of the DNA molecule discovered by Watson. Here's 8 more examples:

https://sip2sleep.com/blogs/news/8-famou...4VqBBwVpia

[Syne]

Baffling why you seemed to be trying to refute this then:

Genius is not unconscious. Where it impacts society, it is deliberate and deliberative.

[Magical Realist]

Do you know the difference between saying genius is not unconscious and genius is unconscious until it is accessed by our own consciousness? Figure it out moron.

[Syne]

When you say anyone can be a genius, you eroded that distinction yourself:

We call those who know how to access this normally unconscious faculty geniuses, but I don't think it arises only rarely out of a mutation of DNA. I think the potential for hypercognition lies in all of us, and may be accessed, if only rarely, in moments where it is needed or intentionally evoked.

But.. you are functionally illiterate. 9_9

You accepted the premise that your "hypercognition" is just genius but you've yet to justify how anyone could be a genius, not matter how fleetingly.

[Magical Realist]

When you say anyone can be a genius, you eroded that distinction yourself:

We call those who know how to access this normally unconscious faculty geniuses, but I don't think it arises only rarely out of a mutation of DNA. I think the potential for hypercognition lies in all of us, and may be accessed, if only rarely, in moments where it is needed or intentionally evoked.

But.. you are functionally illiterate. 9_9

You accepted the premise that your "hypercognition" is just genius but you've yet to justify how anyone could be a genius, not matter how fleetingly.

I didn't make the distinction from genius, but then I did by saying it is available to everyone? You're not making sense anymore. Interestingly, the very word "genius", which comes from the same root as "genie", originates from the idea of a tutelary spirit that accompanies oneself thru life and grants one higher knowledge as also expressed in other ideas like one's "daimon" or "Muse". So even back then they acknowledged the hypercognitive nature of it and its availability to anyone.

[Syne]

When you say anyone can be a genius, you eroded that distinction yourself:

We call those who know how to access this normally unconscious faculty geniuses, but I don't think it arises only rarely out of a mutation of DNA. I think the potential for hypercognition lies in all of us, and may be accessed, if only rarely, in moments where it is needed or intentionally evoked.

But.. you are functionally illiterate. 9_9

You accepted the premise that your "hypercognition" is just genius but you've yet to justify how anyone could be a genius, not matter how fleetingly.

I didn't make the distinction from genius, but then I did by saying it is available to everyone? You're not making sense anymore.

Is that what you think you read? LOL! 9_9

Interestingly, the very word "genius", which comes from the same root as "genie", originates from the idea of a tutelary spirit that accompanies oneself thru life and grants one higher knowledge as also expressed in other ideas like one's "daimon" or "Muse". So even back then they acknowledged the hypercognitive nature of it and its availability to anyone.

The etymology just illustrates the average person's lack of experience with genius.