Firstly, the violet text was inserted in the wrong area of the post, hence there being nothing below your statement aside from my signature. That post has been edited.
Cool, thanks for the clarification. To add a one of my own: Re-reading my post with a bit more distance, it
does sounds vaguely like I'm accusing you of 'dishonest posting' - While I'd tried to pre-empt that impression by assuring you I didn't want to insinuate any motivations, that ... doesn't really help much, does it? I'd had tried to pack too many thoughts into in point, and several edits to make it better ended up making it worse. The perils of neuro-atypical myopia - it ended up sounding totally different than what I'd had in mind. This is not my impression of you. My apologies for any discomfort I caused you.
Secondly, a backslash (/) inserted between two words is often done to represent the word "or". Thusly, the latter portion would be 'subconscious thought' or [poor word choice] 'subconscious awareness'. Not sure if I had meant those in the reverse order as the choice applied to both the words 'conscious' and 'subconscious'. [font size=8]12 hour holiday shifts. yay -_-[/font size]
Now I actually have time to explain what I meant since I'm responding at the start of my break instead of the end of it. (No promises of coherence.) Many people form subconscious filters through which they process information. Usually speaking, these involve an individuals preconceptions and worldview. Things that violate this filter settings are ignored. The least controversial example I can think of would be the 'weirdness censor' trope, sometimes called 'reality blindness'.
Ok - question is whether you're interested in continuing that line of discussion, or whether we let it rest? Personally, I'd be happy to, since I've always found the topic
"(pre-)consciousness" fascinating, ever since reading
"Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance".
My personal opinion is: Can there by a layer of the mind which has its own form of 'awareness' that the layer that we call consciousness cannot access? I've read that some experts say yes, others say no - personally I've no real opinion, and consider myself the most ignorant of laypersons.
Thing is that the word 'awareness' that we use in everyday parlance only really make sense when it refers to our 'conscious awareness(es)' - I can't really tell you much about my 'subconscious awareness' other that if it exists, it doesn't talk to me, least not in any way I could express to you in words.
That was why I used the 'argumentatum ad dictionarum', an argument that I normally abhorr - since my point was one of semantics.
Now then, haven't we already had a discussion in the forums about not jumping to conclusions to try to prove one's own mental superiority? Earnest question. I'm tired, so I might be mixed up with a discussion on tumblr a few months back.
Hmmmh, what to say? Ok - I'll first give an answer to the literal reading of the question: I don't recall such a discussion on this sub-forum. If there was one, I wasn't part of it. If you consider further clarification necessary, feel free to expand on how you think the above applies to my blurb/me - but I'd point out that I can only reply to what you
have posted, not what you had
intended to post, but didn't have the time to. I found your thought interesting and had some questions about it, so ask I did.
Random fun fact: I'm not in the habit of investing time into designing minor effort-posts involving bulletpoints and quotations and whatnot to throw at people that I consider idiots, posts I consider uninteresting, or both. So when I
do reply to you (or anyone else for that matter), you can safely assume that instead I'm taking you and your thoughts/post seriously and am offering you my honest reflections on it for your consideration and further discussion, should you wish to do so -
not as a veiled insult. It's an invitation to
"Uhmmmmh - wanna come out and play?".