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Before Consciousness - In Search of the Fundamentals of Mind

This collection of essays aims to show that in order to understand mind as a whole we have to consider also its nonconscious part, and therefore (because these two spheres are to be perceived not as separated but rather as interconnected) getting a more thorough insight into it is also indispensable for better understanding of consciousness. The nonconscious is habitually associated with automatised motor behaviour, skills and habits, but it has to be noted that even in their most elementary form they require high level of sophistication and cognitive competence. However, most complex cognitive tasks, such as perception, memory, usage of language, action selection, decision making, analogical reasoning, learning and even thought and judgment also rely heavily on nonconscious processing, which is not only faster but also proves to be in many respects more fundamental.

consciousness, unconscious, cognition, brain, perception, thought, intentionality, memory, decision-making, body, skills

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