Unconscious Mind

Why do people sometimes unconscious of what they are doing?

Get the fifth word of this complicated question, and we will start by discussing it so we can get to the point of knowing why we, people, become like that.

Friedrich von Schelling
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According to Friedrich von Schelling, the unconscious mind is defined as automatic mental processes that are not available to introspection. People are being unconscious sometimes about what they are doing because of the fact that there are times that they are filled with emotions leading to actions they do not really mean to do.

There are, according to Eduard von Hartmann, three layers of the unconscious: "the absolute unconscious, which constitutes the substance of the universe and is the source of the other forms of the unconscious; the physiological unconscious, which like Carus' unconscious, is at work in the origin, development, and evolution of living beings, including man; and the relative or psychological unconscious, which lies at the source of our conscious mental life." ---- Ellenberger, Henri F. (1970). The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry. New York: Basic Books. pp. 209-210. ISBN 465-01672-3.

Why do we not just do everything that we feel/think?

Sigmund Freud, founding father of psychoanalysis, stated that the concept of the unconscious was based on the theory of repression. He suggested a series in which ideas are repressed, but remain in the mind, removed from consciousness yet present, and then reappear again after certain circumstances. ---- Sigmund Freud http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud#The_unconscious

Sigmund Freud
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Freud divided the mind into the conscious mind (or the ego) and the unconscious mind. The latter was then further divided into the id (or instincts and drive) and the superego (or conscience). In this theory, the unconscious refers to the mental processes of which individuals make themselves unaware. ---- Sigmund Freud http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscious_mind

In psychoanalytic terms, the unconscious does not include all that is not conscious, but rather what is actively repressed from conscious thought or what a person is averse to knowing consciously. People also viewed the unconscious as a repository for socially unacceptable ideas, wishes or desires, traumatic memories, and painful emotions put out of mind by the mechanism of psychological repression.

Division of the mind
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However, there are still many philosophers, who claimed that it is invalid, criticized the concept of unconsciousness. Erich Fromm’s opinion was that the term ‘the unconscious’ is actually a mystification. There is no such thing as the unconscious; there are only experiences of which we are aware and others of which we are not aware, that is, of which we are unconscious. “If I hate a man because I am afraid of him, and if I am aware of my hate but not of my fear, we may say that my hate is conscious and that my fear is unconscious; still my fear does not lie in that mysterious place: the unconscious.” ---- http://mindandphilosophy.blogspot.com/2012/09/meaning-of-unconscious-mind.html

How Earth Turns to Life

For a long time, the solar system is just a lifeless group of heavenly bodies. There are just the planets revolving around the sun, moons revolving around each planet, a belt of asteroids staying still between two planets, and comets passing by once in a while. No sign of any life forms anywhere can be found, until group of five great creatures coming from somewhere on the galaxy arrived around the solar system. The group is so powerful that it moved in and out of the planets every moment. Until they noticed a planet that is more lifeless than the others, one of them told the group that the planet looks bad. However, they decided to come in. As they roam around the whole place and see nothing but the dull planet itself, one of them thought of innovating the planet. All of them agreed on the idea and with the use of their own specific abilities, they scattered around and change the planet.

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After they agreed on changing the planet, Terre, who thought of the idea, quickly moved on to making the place better looking. Using his own ability, he summoned solid blocks of dirt from the galaxy and pressed them below where he is standing. He continued on throwing blocks of dirt anywhere he wanted. After watching Terre doing that, the others are also on the move. Eau, who swiftly wanders from place to place, splashing water on the planet covering most of its dull face with blue. He even splashed on Terre’s blocks of dirt on different parts of planet. Suddenly, after a moment, green objects sprouted from the blocks of dirt. The blocks have grown hair-like coverings on their surfaces. Moreover, the water that Eau poured has solidified and covered the whole block Terre put on the south because the temperature there is lower comparing to the other portion of the planet. It has turned into a crystallized block. Eau saw that happening, and it triggered him to find more places where the temperature is colder. On the north, he felt that it is almost the same temperature as on the south so he also splashed on the blocks on the north. After a while, the blocks also crystallized. Standing still, Vent is just watching them while gusting air all over the planet. Due to the strong wind Vent has blown, the water produces current that slams on some blocks of Terre. This current turned the blocks into something more attractive to their eyes. On the other side of the planet, Flamme is getting tired of waiting for the others to finish, so he also started moving and controls enough heat coming from the sun and traps it around the planet. After doing that, Flamme noticed the wind that Vent blown moves faster while Eau’s water slowly evaporates. Then, the evaporated water combines with the air and suddenly cools forming puffy white object on the air.

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When they finished doing what they want, they all gathered to see how the planet has changed. The planet, which is dull before, has turned into more attractive with blues, greens, and whites all over the place. However, Vie, the one who did not do anything yet, felt that there is still something missing to complete the change of the planet. With that, he summoned dirt from the galaxy and molds them just like how they almost look. He created many forms including many that are different from their looks. After that, with the help of the others, they placed Vie’s creations everywhere then Vie give life to his creations.

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As his creations have gained their lives, they started moving doing different things. Seeing that, all five of them felt satisfied on what they all done to the planet. Then, they just decided to go the south part of the planet and settle their place there. From time to time, they visit Vie’s creations to see how they live over. However, there are times that the creations are not doing fine that make them mad. To teach them lessons, every one of them uses his own abilities. Terre shakes the ground to alert the creations. Eau uses his ability to drown some creations while they are under the water. Vent summons a powerful twister at different places. Flamme sometimes burns a place and sometimes gives a lot of heat to some places. There are also times that they help each other to teach the creations better lessons. Terre and Eau work together to send an enormous wave of water to the creations. On the other hand, Eau, Flamme, and Vent combine their ability to send a large amount of water from the air to the ground and blowing a strong wind at the same time. However, Vie does the most brutal punishment among them. Vie removes the life from a creation once he noticed that a creation does really wicked.

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For a long time, the five of them do these to set the rules, “what to do” and “what not to do,” among all creations without these creations knowing them.

The story was motivated by two major sources: the Greek Mythology and the Biblical Creation of Life. The concept of gods are used to depict the powerful creatures that came from somewhere around the galaxy. Like the Greek gods, these powerful creatures also possess unique abilities that they used to start the change on the planet. Each of them can control different elements such water, air, and fire. Then, the creation of life enters when each of them started to move and do what they wanted to change the planet. It started with the creation of the land, followed by the sea bodies. Then, the air surrounding the earth was also created. The heat that was trapped on earth was used to form the clouds. Finally, the greatest part of the creation was the creation of life itself, which is when “Vie” made the new creatures and gave them life.