ABSTRACT

A subject of much research in cognitive neuroscience is exactly about how the mindbrain can perform such complicated processing completely unconsciously. Modern science prefers to call it "implicit" processing instead of "unconscious," hoping thereby to avoid the implications of repressed sexuality and other basic drives that have accrued around Sigmund Freud's thinking about the unconscious. It seems that our mindbrains are able to perceive things, process information, and solve problems without conscious awareness, including some rather high-level abstractions and insights. Psychoanalysis has developed another model of the segmentation of the mindbrain. Multiple personalities, multiple selves, and dissociation: those are means for speaking of the segmentation of the mindbrain. Some modern neuroscientists have come to use the word "module" to describe segments of the mindbrain. Neuroscientists and philosophers have questioned whether aspects of conceptual thinking and central processing can also be modular.