Changes

====''[[Thinking]]''====

====''[[Thinking]]''====

*Changing unconscious thinking to conscious thought

*Changing unconscious thinking to conscious thought

MMc:  Very good.  I have one.  Machiventa, recently, you suggested a book by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lakoff George Lakoff], ''[http://www.chelseagreen.com/elephant Don’t Think of an Elephant]''.  I found Lakoff’s views on thinking quite interesting, but I have some questions that I’d like to address to you, if I may?  According to Lakoff, about 98% of thinking happens subconsciously, or unconsciously, and only 2 % in the conscious mind.  The unconscious mind has frames, metaphors, narratives, prototypes, stereotypes and assumptions that set up the world view that the person has that directs their conscious thinking.  This is the reason that we are able to think quite quickly and come to almost instantaneous decisions in our lives.  This is very helpful.  But on the other hand, these unconscious thoughts that we have aren’t accessible to us consciously, and they set up a situation where conservatives and progressives have different worldviews, and the information that a conservative would accept is different from the information that a progressive would accept, because they have different worldviews.  To give an example, a lot of conservatives still don’t believe [in] climate change and global warming, simply because it doesn’t compute in their worldview.  The question I have is:  Is there a way of changing people’s minds, or getting them to open up this unconscious thinking to conscious thought, so that they can analyze their own unconscious minds and come to better concepts of truth, fact and reality, rather than just the assumptions and the information that they have collected throughout their lifetime and hold unconsciously?

MMc:  Very good.  I have one.  Machiventa, recently, you suggested a book by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lakoff George Lakoff], ''[https://www.chelseagreen.com/elephant Don’t Think of an Elephant]''.  I found Lakoff’s views on thinking quite interesting, but I have some questions that I’d like to address to you, if I may?  According to Lakoff, about 98% of thinking happens subconsciously, or unconsciously, and only 2 % in the conscious mind.  The unconscious mind has frames, metaphors, narratives, prototypes, stereotypes and assumptions that set up the world view that the person has that directs their conscious thinking.  This is the reason that we are able to think quite quickly and come to almost instantaneous decisions in our lives.  This is very helpful.  But on the other hand, these unconscious thoughts that we have aren’t accessible to us consciously, and they set up a situation where conservatives and progressives have different worldviews, and the information that a conservative would accept is different from the information that a progressive would accept, because they have different worldviews.  To give an example, a lot of conservatives still don’t believe [in] climate change and global warming, simply because it doesn’t compute in their worldview.  The question I have is:  Is there a way of changing people’s minds, or getting them to open up this unconscious thinking to conscious thought, so that they can analyze their own unconscious minds and come to better concepts of truth, fact and reality, rather than just the assumptions and the information that they have collected throughout their lifetime and hold unconsciously?

   

   

MACHIVENTA:  Yes, certainly.  Let me explain:  We have explained this before, but your question assists us to, as Lakoff would say, “reframe your conceptual constructs in a way that is understandable for those who hold such strict constructs in their mind.”  In brief, the circumstances of global warming, and the climatologic effects are having a traumatic effect on the thinking of many people.  This will be exacerbated immensely by tectonic activity and volcanism as well in your world when they do occur.  The work of the progressives, and those who think outside the box of the structured thinking, the question that they will ask in contemporary language is, “How is this working for you?”  It is important that the question be asked or raised.  

MACHIVENTA:  Yes, certainly.  Let me explain:  We have explained this before, but your question assists us to, as Lakoff would say, “reframe your conceptual constructs in a way that is understandable for those who hold such strict constructs in their mind.”  In brief, the circumstances of global warming, and the climatologic effects are having a traumatic effect on the thinking of many people.  This will be exacerbated immensely by tectonic activity and volcanism as well in your world when they do occur.  The work of the progressives, and those who think outside the box of the structured thinking, the question that they will ask in contemporary language is, “How is this working for you?”  It is important that the question be asked or raised.