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Sancripriano put the words ‘visual distance’ in quotes - what could he mean by visual distance then? People can see the object of their perceptions at different distances, it is basically saying that perception can change how someone views the world or any individual object - there are also ‘cognitive tensions, constituen origins, and differeny modalities - what could all of those things be cognitively?

The mind needs to intellectualize everything that it processes - the unconscoius mind first recognizes inputs from the external world and its internal processes and all of those processes are intellectualized and thought about in a more deep fashion. Is the conscoius mind just a way of understanding the unconscious? There must be different levels of presence of mind - as Tymienieca said that there were different levels of ‘self-given’ presence. Barral said that the mind has ‘suppositions’ and that there are different perspecitves.

So what is going on exactly - what is the difference between the conscious mind and the unconscious mind? The unconscious mind is already understood by normal people as being the drives and thoughts that people have that they aren’t fully aware of - however did people typically think of the unconscious mind as possibly being a different person? When someone is sleeping they are certainly like a different person, and often don’t even remember what they were dreaming about - that is because there is a difference between the two consciousnesses and the people who arise from those consciousnesses.

What would it mean for the mind to ‘intellectualize’ something? Could that mean that the conscous mind - or who the person of the conscious mind is - understands something in recognition of itself and its own personality traits and characteristics?

I said in a previous article that ‘consciousness can cause feelings and intellectual stimulation’ - however what does that mean exactly? Is it the unconscoius mind that causes the feelings and the stimulation. or is it the conscious mind, or is it the two together? It would be described as how someones mind respond to external stimulation - the stimulation triggers a reaction in the mind which helps to determine the responce. The reaction is conscious and unconscoius, obviously - but what are the conscious and unconscoius components?

So some of the components would be different factors from reality - the unconscious mind could recognize some factors while the conscoius mind only recognizes others - it was already understood that people absorb somethings unconsciously and don’t recognize them consciously, however there are more details that could be looked at like if the unconscoius mind ‘understands’ what is going on and is processing information and emotions with a greater understanding of the persons feelings, ideas and other associations and thought and feeling structures.

The mind - its information and emotions

Rationality is how rational someone is - or the term 'logical' could apply, and rationality relates to how someone processes information - or the philosophical field of epistemology. How a person uses their logic or rationality can help to determine how they think and understand information in the world.

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Source:  OpenStax, How is emotion and cognition experienced, processed, and related?. OpenStax CNX. Jul 11, 2016 Download for free at http://legacy.cnx.org/content/col11919/1.7
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