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This theory simply does not resonate with me. I do not feel that I am at all like that and neither has anyone I have known been like that. It is as off the mark as Freudian theories are, in my view. "So you wall off a little area of your mind.." Do you have any evidence for this idea that the consciousness is a walled off area?
That is an incredibly strong claim if meant literally rather than as hyperbole.
Can you clarify? Are you saying that this posting's ideas are not similar to Freudian ideas? Or are you saying that Freudian type ideas are not generally discredited in neuroscience? Or both? Or something else?
I'm saying that Freudian type ideas are really, really bad. I'm emphasising that saying a model is as bad as Freud's eponymous theories is a significant claim indeed, (although it is something that could reasonably be used to emphasise a lesser criticism with hyperbole.)
My comment here is orthogonal to the issue of to what extent the ideas in this post are accurate and useful but relevant to scale of evaluation.
Fair enough. If you are saying that the ideas in the post are not as bad as Freud's and I have exaggerated, then you may be right. They seem very similar to me but I was focusing on the business of dividing up the mind into component minds and the notion of opposition between the resulting minds. I would agree that the post is not like Freud in other ways.
Well, that and I'm just taking the chance to disrespect Freud (and express contempt with the remnants of Freudian thinking that are still floating about in popular psychology.)
One thing that I would say, and you may well agree on this, is that this post could reasonably be labelled a 'just so' story, as could Freud's ramblings. Fortunately the sanity watermark is somewhat higher here and contemporary understanding of human behavior at least ensures that even the most arbitrary of just so stories must explain a better set of observations.
Agreed - thanks for the correction