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The “Other-Than-Conscious Mind”

The Other-than-conscious mind is also called the subconscious mind, or the unconscious mind … or the non-conscious mind. It’s an area of science still searching for a better word to describe the “other-than-conscious mind”. For the sake of brevity kids, we will call the other-than-conscious mind the “OTC mind” until we can come up with a new and better description of a subject as mysterious and interesting as the cosmos.

Our conscious mind and our OTC mind work as a team. I’m convinced there is some interesting communications going on between the two. When I refer to just the “mind” I will be referring to the conscious mind & OTC mind in combination. All our conscious thoughts and self talk is stored along with our OTC mind the memories in our brain’s hippo campus. Our mind and our brain are two different inseparable things. The brain is an organ … material thing, that our mind needs to function. The memories created by the mind are who we are.

The mystery we are now investigating is; “What is the OTC mind?* To understand the difference between the conscious mind and the OTC mind, let’s examine the conscious mind first. The conscious part of the mind processes things in linear fashion. All other things, other than what the conscious mind is focusing on, become distractions and are not acted upon. The conscious mind has the ability to think chronologically and consider both the past and the present. The conscious mind  has self awareness and abstract thinking capibilities. 

The OTC mind doesn’t appear to be self aware or have abstract thoughts, but it deals with everything the conscious mind doesn’t. The OTC mind monitors all the physical signals to the brain continuously and simultaneously. One of the hallmarks of the OTC mind it’s ability to react spontaneously. You might say at the speed of light. In the next blog, grandpa will get into conjecture like we did with our Nested Universes concept. We will make conjectures about the brain and the mind … that I believe are unproven. Next blog we’ll examine the brain as a hologram.

*A lot of the material comes from an article by Jeff Sauber on the Internet