Do You Have an Unconscious Mind?

Much like the biological processes in the rest of your body, a lot of your brain's psychological processes happen without you thinking directly about them-or even being aware of them.
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[@d_wang9836]

"Do You Have an Unconscious Mind?" *looks down* Yea

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[@philtripe]

i use it when im really drunk

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Made my day

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Id

[@TheRealE.B.]

We need a Task Manager for our brains.

[@TinchoX]

Yep

[@EllaBananas]

That sounds dangerous. I feel like I would accidentally end something important like explorer.exe then I would have to manually start it to get the UI back. You could probably train your mind to do something similar to that; my girlfriend used to navigate memories through a file manager and could "delete" certain ones. Brains are weird.

[@waitean09]

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[@kittybeans8192]

shut down pain.exe, terminate process depression, kill sex drive. WAIT! CTRL Z! CTRL ZZZZZZZ

[@1224chrisng]

and just have it entirely editable and very open source and whatnot

[@user-db4dd4ze3n]

Great... Now you made me breath manually

[@TheZenytram]

for the whole video

[@cryptidofthemarshes1680]

Luan Rivello I KNOW I HATE IT

[@TiagoTiagoT]

You can distract yourself from that by becoming aware your nose is always in your field of view; or on how how you tongue is sitting inside your mouth when you relax it.

[@A7XFan800]

Well then, you are now blinking manually

[@anevtuscrynis3954]

@@A7XFan800 dammit, now I'm breathing *and* blinking manually.

[@ThePCguy17]

Spoiler alert: yes. Also, my breathing is super distracting now. Thanks.

[@b.sylphaen]

Now you are breathing manually again, and you also hear a click when you swallow. You're welcome.

[@willythemailboy2]

You are now blinking manually.

[@WeareIF]

your thinking manually.

[@b.sylphaen]

*You're You should definitely try thinking manually once in a while.

[@oliverhees4076]

I might have an unconscious mind, but I'm not consciously aware of it.

[@allaeor]

You are now pumping your heart manually

[@1224chrisng]

died

[@LukeRen-rl4yv]

love you mom...

[@jordanholcomb525]

Something actually happened like that when I looked at my own heart beat thought I was finna die lol

[@maiguelmoreno9027]

This was great, I have been researching "how to use your subconscious mind to get what you want" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Ever heard of - Giyoe Fonogan Builder - (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now ) ? Ive heard some incredible things about it and my cousin got amazing results with it.

[@sofiyak]

Shush

[@microbuilder]

Wouldve been interesting to touch on the studies that have shown our unconscious mind makes decisions before we consciously realize it and act upon them.

[@SidV101]

Which, if you think about it, maybe implies that we don't have free will

[@benbelt5849]

SidV101 it's still your mind making the decision though.

[@ginknee5835]

A good portion of that is done in REM sleep, which i'd guess is one of the reasons why not getting a lot of sleep can make you feel slower the next day. Your brain has to make more decisions than normal, because it didn't have enough time to pre-process them while you were sleeping.

[@custos3249]

Not to mention how such discussions rarely if ever discuss the recursive nature of those neural impulses between the conscious and unconscious or, more accurately, the liminal and subliminal

[@MindfulThinks]

Does anybody else think of the superego as wearing a cape and flying through the air? No? Just me?

[@nathaniellangford7314]

MindfulThinks I do

[@beesgold1487]

MindfulThinks I did too

[@user-cs6fl7zp8b]

Nooo

[@satori183]

Interesting!

[@BEASLAND000]

TL;DW: Freud was incorrect that everyone's dad touched them when they were young but he was right in that we do have an unconscious layer in our mind, its just more like a sensitive membrane than anything.

[@Tifos2]

beesland He was right about that we have a unconscious mind just like others that proposed this before him. He wasn't the one who came up with the idea of the unconscious, he just guessed (and was wrong about) how it works.

[@MZZenyl]

"You are now breathing manually" You ass. :P

[@LordAmerican]

How does your tongue feel in your mouth right about now?

[@kagaminek]

an Unconscious Mind? in MY me? it's more likely than you think

[@madjoker4life]

cool spent almost 5 minutes trying to control my breath, well played

[@thisisyourusernameondrugs9373]

hasan awad God damn it, I read this commenjust after I had returned to automatic breathing. Guess its back to manual breathing haha

[@OpenWorldGirlMR]

Storytime! I've always been nervous and kinda scared of escalators then my mom told me when I was a baby I saw my grandma fall down escalators. I don't recall that event but I think my subconscious remembers and has made me afraid.

[@joraforever9899]

my unconcious mind tells me yes

[@sk8rdman]

Yup. We like to think we have control over our choices, and understand our own motives and reasoning, but there's an iceberg of unconscious influences behind everything we think and do. And it's not just physiological impulses, or something in our genes. It's things we've learned, and been conditioned to feel, even when those feelings contradict what we want, or what society seems to prefer. People like to look at the feelings they can't rationalize, and say that that they were just born that way, but I don't buy it. I think we learn to feel those things. Even if we don't consciously choose to adopt them.

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I love your presentation, i don't know if it's the writing or your voice, but I really enjoy watching your videos!

[@tnttiger3079]

I've been waiting for this!

[@seska1245]

I love that they're not always shoving patreon on your face on this sci show. It's nice.

[@GetPsyched]

I think it's vital to better understand the unconscious mind. Not just to understand our breathing patterns but also I understand our thought processes and why we do things. Like everything, these things are subjective to the individual

[@dylanpainter4803]

hey Vsause, Michael here

[@consciouscactus]

Where are your fingers?

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vSoS

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Hey Vsauce, Kevin here

[@km1dash6]

Wasn't there a study done where people were told to memorize a set of numbers, and then weeks later, despite forgetting, the researchers were able to stimulate certain neurons that brought back the memory?

[@briseboy]

Well, ya know, "mind" might be a trope. All brains have neurons that only respond to singular things, some can be vertical lines, others entire faces of a particular individual, and, though not yet discovered (imaging is hard to do , but the tech is advancing), probably styles of motion, even though that might be more associational. Those are by no means the only single or possible neuron specializations. We know that neurons use summation to function, and vary in their thresholds. When you think about multitasking actually being microtasking, you understand the possibility of working memory having utility beyond just being extremely short storage for salience to cause encoding. So, what's mind? Attention. We primates expend a lot of energy on visual stimuli, and we humans have used and evolved a complex symbolic verbal signaling system, allowing us to expand parts of our brain used for social evaluation: social status and how to get it; reciprocity in all its possibilities; deception to escape loss or gain status and associated security and access to resources; self-deception to improve our capacity for deception and avoidance of detection. So, our attention may have greater capacity to shift between our complex fabrications and sensory reality. While other mammals exhibit attentional lapses, ours are so significant that we may experience such increased failures to attend to sensory reality, that we posit unconscious and that shifting process, we call mind. Yet other animals understand deception, and experience such problems as persistent obsession. They experience social stress and tolerate it until an opportunity for escape arises.. We and they have evolved signals that calm , reducing social stress. We call this in other animals, using an outdated (behaviorism, the discredited description of behavior without mental process) term, habituation. So, mind needs a more concise description than is common, and because brains -any neurally-connected system - shift attention to salience, mind is clearly attention. Just as memory is primed by salience (Tversky's availability heuristic elaborates this structural characteristic of brains), attention is contingent changing of the system to attend to salience. If you want to chase this, explore the epigenetic process of histone acetylation and deacetylation. This'll require linking transcription, the proteome, and consequence effects on neurons - of which there may be thousands of different kinds, or more, even down to individual cells, although evolution suggests there must be redundancy in the system. I totally hate to add this, but plants have developed an alternative method of signaling, even though it includes pheromones and hormones as do animals. You are far more susceptible to pheromonal and hormonal information , by the way, than you think. A lot of your attentional salience is due to detecting these molecules. So, then, is your mind inextricably linked to all others through these external signaling molecules? After all, you are linked by sound waves and light signals . . .

[@3ckitani]

Please someone make 0:08 a GIF!

[@Oguum]

Well done! 👍

[@cadr003]

So your actions / choices can be effected by events in your life that you might've already forgotten? I wonder then if any memory gets "deleted" when forgotten, or if it just tucks away into our subconscious. Or maybe memories really do "die", but they leave traces and remnants that then shape our unconscious psyche.

[@theonlineanimal6009]

All memories are still in our minds. Just can't access them all. And often times they are distorted. It's very interesting

[@ladylucario7958]

What about when your brain goes on, what I call, "autopilot"? This can happen when you do something you are used to doing it. When I'm at work, I automatically greet people and I don't have to focus on every word. When I cash people out, my body just does things automatically without me thinking hard about it. Sometimes I have to pay harder attention.

[@ahmednagy7571]

do we have free will?

[@dutchik5107]

Ahmed Nagy no

[@ahmednagy7571]

Dutchik I know about the lipet experiment I want them to make a video about it

[@ttaaddoo111]

Dutchik So you did not just choose to post a comment denying free will, you say?

[@1stGoRide]

Dutchik Solid evidence to support your statement.

[@jkm7983]

Ahmed Nagy no

[@spankasheep]

When you talked about procedural memories and tying shoes, I thought about muscle memory. Like when you did something over and over and over again, so often that you can't even do that slightly different. I for example learned some fast moves on the Rubik's Cube and when my friends were watching and told me to do this slowly, so that they can follow, I was unable to do anything. It didn't work. I noticed that I've forgotten the algorithm, but I could still do it (just to fast/how I learned it before hand). I find that so interesting. The moment your mind kicks in and you suddenly notice that the things you were doing, you did unconscious. Walking to school on the same way for a decade, going to the bathroom in the middle of the night, without (really) being awake and so on. Cool topic ;P

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I love this host so much

[@erikvelosoramirez7583]

Hello, could you guys make a video about Neuroeconomics? There's a lot of interesting research about it.

[@user-pn4py6vr4n]

"You are now breathing manually." All the people on ventilators because of COVID-19: I wish.

[@fuquuu]

Do a video on EMDR treatments for psychology!!

[@lucasrhan]

It kinda bugs me that the "march" for science is in April.

[@snitcheyes411]

That image priming study makes me wonder: do you think looking at a lot of disturbing images (horror films, etc) might make a person unconsciously more likely to do things like see ghosts, avoid dark alleys, or suffer from paranoia?

[@Meganopteryx]

Sometimes objects will bring to mind vivid memories that I had otherwise forgotten. Like whenever my parents took my old toy box out of the attic. I had forgotten I even had that thing.

[@djackio]

Going to say it again; you are a great presenter.

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[@PulseChainBrowser]

agreed, I love being manipulated by political propoganda

[@artificialidiot7328]

Wouldn't the unconscious mind be dreaming? Technically we are not conscious when we are sleeping. Hence why people say your unconscious when you sleep. So if we know as a fact that dreaming exists while unconscious.Are our dreams just us experiencing our unconscious mind? Or am I just weird.

[@joshdillon2371]

I got hit by a car and almost died. I dont remeber anything that happened, I got hit around 8pm, and last thing I remember is picking my clothes for the day much much earlier. It wasn't that big a deal for me since I didn't even recall the incident at the time, but everytime I'm on the road I got hit on or when a car drives fast next to me, I flinch REALLY REALLY bad like my body just freezes and I'm enveloped in fear. Its so weird since I can't consiencly remember it, it's like it never happened. But this makes a lot of sense to me now.

[@DustinRodriguez1_0]

How do they distinguish, in situations such as the 'broken up drawings 17 years later' study, a difference between 'priming' and 'learning'? Or are the two the same thing? I mean, obviously when I write a computer program I am not consciously aware of the fact that my knowing how to do it stands on more foundational ideas like how to solve certain types of problems, symbolic manipulation of concepts, representation of ideas with language, object permanence letting me know the keyboard is still there even though its outside my field of view, etc. Would I then not have ever 'learned' computer programming, but I was only 'primed' for it?

[@TheRealE.B.]

Sometimes I find myself humming the tune to a song that has some random connection to whatever I'm thinking about at the time. Not necessarily some associative Pavlov's Dog connection, but often a connection that you'd THINK I'd need to consciously think about and pick the tune.

[@isaacmartinez2218]

This feels awesome

[@danielbelmir0]

How do i disable the manual breathing?

[@moiquiregardevideo]

Every part of the brain which don't process language is unconscious. The visual area can "think" by pictures, but the stream of tough generated is difficult to communicate verbally. Thus, when we get a sudden inspiration to solve a 3d puzzle, improve an existing tool, the answer appear as if an invisible spirit, god, etc would have revealed it. The cortex is mostly made of neurons used to create/recall memory. Learning consist in growing new synapses between neurons located not too far from each other. An alternative view would be that learning is done by keeping existing connections firmly while allowing the pruning of rarely used ones. Either way, the brain is physically different over time, depending on what we learn. Even two identical twins will get quite different local 3d structure in their brain since they learn different facts. The major networks of neuron, the areas of specialization are the same, but the detail of the connection of each memory neuron is unique for each human. The only conscious activity are those which we can verbalize, those ideas that we can express to a friend or write on paper or computer documents. However, we use the word "consciousness" to represent many different aspects of the brain activity. One of these is the voluntary selection of the most important stream of information. We may focus our attention on sound, touch, smell, etc Every time we decide to pay attention to something, we direct a higher percentage of the limited processing time toward it. Even within a single sensory organ, such as vision, we may pay attention to color or shape or direction of motion or speed. Likewise, when we direct our attention to sound, we may pay attention to spoken words, melody, sound intensity, sound direction, etc. When our mind is focusing on a specific type of information, the brain continue to process every other type of data. When counting the number of time the players exchange a ball, we may not notice the gorilla crossing the field and even waving at us, but that gorilla could be act like "priming", already present at an unconscious level.

[@craigswanson8026]

The unconscious mind is much more fundamental than conceptualized here. It represents that portion of our culture that we experience directly (social interaction) and indirectly (observation, media). The process of language acquisition IS the process of enculturation/socialization. Not simply an “angel” or “devil” whispering in our ears, the unconscious mind creates and sustains-outside of our awareness-our ENTIRE reality (not to be confused with actuality). The unconscious mind is our primary lens through which our natural environment is interpreted and acted upon. Our ‘ego’ (in the subconscious) then takes this worldview/schema/Geist and integrates our biological/natural sensations, drives, and inclinations. It’s the blending of nature and nurture, of biology and culture. Our unconscious mind acts as our ‘primary lens’ through which we resolve the chaos of sensation into the order of perception and thought.

[@maazshaikh2953]

this reminded me of that crash course psychology episode

[@Sinheart1]

Great video!

[@ThatWarioGiant]

Truth fmab

[@KingsleyIII]

Yes. When I'm asleep.

[@joellacount5906]

She did a good job. Wish to hear more from the host

[@joellacount5906]

And thanks KZbin for keeping me up to date

[@SuviTuuliAllan]

Could you make a video on the effect a high midichlorian count has on the developing mind? Thanks!

[@bigbad182]

You are now Moving Manually !

[@parallel4]

What were the stats on that line drawing study? Like how large was the gap? Because that could easily be coincidence.

[@gort668]

The final countdown is now playing in your head

[@kawaii_princess_castle]

Yes you just need to pay attention to what is happening in your mind and analyse it deeply! I can't believe cientists have not studied it!! It is so interesting

[@TrackedHiker]

Research implicit memory vs. explicit memory. Read the book Thinking, Fast and Slow. Check out what Numenta is doing and their “thousand brains” theory. You might start to get some insight into the kinds of things that we might label “unconscious mind.”

[@luc4lvar3s30]

i just love her

[@EveryTimeV2]

Aversion should usually exist as a response to negative experiences in a certain situation. For example the fear of losing control could be related to prior abuse from 'losing' control. Not trusting specific people is because that trust was shattered. Blaming someone for not trusting you is just reinforcing that it's a bad idea to trust that person. After all, they're willing to reject your feelings and preferences, and possibly even your well-being for their own selfish gain. There is no amount of medicine that could cure the death from listening to that retardation.

[@izhan6991]

do a video on meta-psychosis

[@Henchman_Holding_Wrench]

It's still weird for me to hear about certain "unconscious" things to this day. Every time I heard it, it was always in the context of someone who's unresponsive. I grew up hearing "subconscious" for everything else. Seems like "unconsciously doing" something will always be weird for me to hear.

[@jerry3790]

Goddammit scishow!!!

[@ArpanMukhopadhyay93]

march for science!

[@YCCCm7]

Is it weird that when I read "you are now aware of your tongue" or whatever these bits are, I just kinda don't pay it any mind and go on my way?

[@Azrage]

Like the way my tongue sits in my mouth. Thanks for making me think of that, SciShow. Now my tongue is weird ;-;. I do love SciShow though.

[@nationalnationalism8885]

As a smoker, i can assure you that my breathing is always manual.

[@lamb9968]

Can you do a video on Blackmail?

[@colinp2238]

Sometimes I can't remember things I have done 5 minutes before never mind 17 years.

[@hiiambob89]

Actually the breathing thing doesn't work on me.

[@Bbi_Official]

hhh Hhh same

[@shawnlouis1044]

0:17 as soon as she mention to that meme I actually thought about breathing

[@Sugondees]

Can you make a video about day dreaming, i spend half my day just day dreaming.

[@Mark_25299]

Each time I go to the barber's, I have a panic attack when I get in the chair. My heart races, I sweat, my throat feels tight and I just want to run away. I have no idea why this happens. I can't even pin down a memory during my childhood to explain such a reaction. I don't get this kind of reaction anywhere else or in any other similar environment. Not even when I'm just in a barber's without getting my hair cut. My unconscious mind has skeletons...

[@roblaquiere8220]

Strange, I actually had my ear partially cut off by a barber when I was young and it never affected me. Not once was I ever scared by a barber after that, oddly enough.

[@aleka..]

Rob Laquiere Long effect trauma (or not) is based on many factors, expectations, prior experiences, feelings of threat, way of processing what happened after it... etc. You might have had confidence in the barber, been told to stay still otherwise you'd get your ear cut-so you were not surprised, pain was not serious (if you hurt yourself often while playing/running - might been hurt even more occasionally) etc, etc. Not strange :)

[@roblaquiere8220]

Well, I was told to sit still and I didn't... The barber was a children's barber and still couldn't manage my hyperactivity. I was already a veteran of stitches at this point too. Maybe you're right I was sort of expecting it to happen...

[@howtotruckdriver101]

Super-ego amazing book

[@friggin149]

2:45 So what do i tell all the voices in my head?

[@kittykhun]

I can remember everything that I did I want everything and I feel sad about it like one of my friend ruin my birthday and my my birthday of this day is ruined too and I cry about it all the time

[@Ingcivilcarlos]

now I´m controlling my breath, that was incredibly effective.

[@jod125]

In response to the drawing identification experiement, the participants may not have been affected by seeing them 17 years prior. Maybe the were just naturally better at recognising or decyphing the drawings.

[@braininajar8474]

Shout out: Tab for a Cause is an amazing free extension that donates to The Foundation Against World Suck.

[@sh4mst0ne]

what part of the brain contains the unconsciousness, subconsciousness and the consciousness? or are they an emergent property of different brain parts?

[@methyllithium323]

In Soviet Russia the unconscious mind has you!

[@WeareIF]

Lucid dreaming is the key to controlling this part of your mind.

[@enzomadalitso5769]

Exactly its the master key 🔥

[@rayztube]

Hi Um I have a question.Why do humans tend to give up when a negetive end is near...

[@thstroyur]

0:42 That's rather vague: if sub is memory banks+routines running, isn't the whole thing always running on 'hidden' mode, with the layer of self-awareness being a subroutine that kicks in post-rationalization of the self? And technically, one breaths pneumatically, you nerds XP

[@AlexaAXAG]

I always remember a face when I see it, no matter how long it's been, if it hasn't dramatically changed. I clearly recall some of the memories with that person. But I always forget their names. Anyone else?

[@jurajjamrich7905]

You are now digesting food manually

[@dethkon]

Ok, ok, so by participating in Language (discourse), a register of inner experience is created that are understood yet unspoken. After listening to lectures on Lacan for 2 years that’s all I’m willing to concede right now, and even this is almost certainly a misrepresentation. Thinking about this can make you crazy..

[@emilytheweirdo4752]

What you experience in your dream is what makes up your subconscious.

[@BekkiAnnArt]

You guys should talk about Jung's ideas sometime!

[@felixchong8531]

"you are now breathing manually." My reply:"HOLY FECES!!!"

[@dreadcthulhu5]

I got that reference.

[@Di0nysys]

Freud got the idea of the unconscious mind from Schoppenhauer's concept of 'will'.

[@SuperSmoothSlick]

Can somebody please explain to me what they mean by: behaving in ways you didn't intent.

[@xMDawg19x]

Manual Samuel

[@felixchong8531]

Wonder why so little amount of refer to the game?

[@cobalius]

I think we have like an ocean of mind and a boat to swim in. Well, you can use a bigger boat, but none will be as big as the ocean and the ocean will be bigger over your life. Sooo, a boat is a bit easier to handle and you can get much quicker where you wanna go

[@joecaner]

She has some ink on her right bicep, but she wants us to get much closer before we can read it... What does that say about her psychologically speaking?

[@leozamora2304]

That open window in the thumbnail should be a phone screen

[@secretaltruism4174]

Wouldn't the breathing mechanism be subconscious, since, as you showed, it can be drawn to our attention?

[@AndreaCrisp]

I was confused by this as well. Watching that piece again did not help so I Googled "unconscious vs subconscious" and read an article from Harvard. Sounds like the term subconscious is not really used in science now, but that originally Freud used the two terms interchangeably, eventually settling on unconscious. However, because in the beginning he used both there is still a lot of confusion about it outside of scientific circles... Hmmm... 🤔

[@Wibblium]

An entire semester of psychology class in less than the first 2 min...

[@thesuccessfulone]

I wanna know how we describe human behaviour without a mind, because it seems like it could be useful.

[@Stormingblessed]

I have asthma, so I'm aware of my breathing fairly often anyways. lol

[@jayyylin]

"the most famous bearded figures in psychology" Me: Abraham Lincoln?

[@NewMessage]

Never go to a Psych Convention Breakfast Buffet. Unless you want to hear a 60 year old Ivy League educated Professor make a 'Leggo my ego!" joke every time someone grabs a waffle.

[@David-ew5gc]

One thing to say : THE BRAIN by David Eagleman. Go check it out, trust me.