Subj : Re: Rome
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : RR
Date : Mon Aug 29 2005 22:09:05

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

John I wrote:

>>>>>>>> As is typical, I have little to say.  The show has intrigued me
>>>>>>>> enough to watch more episodes, which I suppose means "it
>>>>>>>> rocks"-ish.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Trafford completely fails to mention Polly Walker's incredibly
>>>>>>> hot nude scenes.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I mean, like *WAY* hot.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Too true, too true.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Out of respect (and ignorance), I will not speculate as to why
>>>>>>> this is.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The review *was* suspiciously short on facts.
>>>>>
>>>>> I suspect your mind was subconsciously[1] on other things at the
>>>>> time of writing.
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] I often question my use of the various forms of word
>>>>> "subconcious". Sometimes I see people using the word "unconscious"
>>>>> where it seems they should use "sub". Does not sub = "beneath the
>>>>> thinking mind", while un = "out cold"?
>>>>
>>>> You are correct, sir.
>>>>
>>>> I had a psych professor who said that whole idea of 'subconscious'
>>>> or 'subliminal' was wrong, because there was nothing beneath the
>>>> thinking mind.  (Besides autonomic reflexes, obviously.)
>>>
>>> I think your professor was wack.  There are connections and
>>> expressions that get built without conscience thought all the time.
>>> The creative process is a prime example.  How many times have we
>>> all had that moment when a great idea came unbidden.  Clearly
>>> unconscience (subconconscience, if you will) mental processes were
>>> at work making associations between concepts and memories before
>>> the idea was triggered and registered in conscience thought.
>>>
>>> I think your professor suffered from the kind of right brained
>>> deficiency you get in a lot of PhDs.  They spend so much time and
>>> effort in higly congnitive and consciencely logical thought, and are
>>> divorced from their other more emotional mental sides, that they
>>> lose touch with important mental faculties.
>>>
>>> Also "Unconscience" was used by Freud and Jung in much the same way
>>> we often use Sub-c.
>>
>> Now that I think about it, it may have only been "subliminal
>> perception" that he was talking about.  (It was an 8am class my
>> first semester in college, I can't be expected to retain much.)
>
> More on this later.

This thread has become unconscionable.

-- 
RR

"It's been my experience that every
  time I think I know 'where it's at,'
      it's really somewhere else."
      - William Holden - S.O.B.

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