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The Unconscious Mind - Coggle Diagram

- - - - There are 100 million neurons dedicated to your digestion system.
- - - - Connected in a network of staggering complexity. Neurons make 10,000 connections to neighbouring neurons
        
        A cubic cc of brain tissue has as many connections as stars in the Milky Way
- - - - 'You occupy only a small room in the mansion that is your brain.'
        
        We have inaccessible areas (like a computer). We are excluded in the interest of our survival and that of the human race.
- - - - 18/19th C Charles Bell (anatomist) detected 2 sorts of nerves, motor & sensory 1.e. import and export
        
        1824 Friedrich Herbert (philosopher/psychologist) proposed that one idea can be opposed by another, weakening the originsl idea, causing it to sink out of awareness, while ideas that agree rise into awareness.
        
        19th C Ernest Weber (physician) brought rigour of physics to the study of the mind. What can people detect? How fast they react, and what they perceive.
        
        19th C Johannes Muller noticed that pressure on the eye gave rise to sensations of light. i.e. that we are not directly aware of the outside world - only the sigals from our nervous system, and that is what we believe.
        
        A PARADIGM SHIFT:1886 James Cattrell People started to use the experience of using machines to understand the brain, as WE now use our experience of the computer. He saw that the speed of reactions depend on the type of thinking, some in a flash but others take time.
        
        19/20th C Finally the Master of the Unconscious: Sigmund Freud who grew up with the Darwinian model & world view.He examined individual psychological disorders. His idea was that human behaviour was explicable in terms of unseen mental processes, the machinerunning things from behind the scenes.
        
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