Originally Posted by nighthawk
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Just because we are not immediately aware of something in a given instance in time doesn't mean the information is not there,

On the other hand it doesn't mean that the information necessarily IS there. In this case it's pretty hard to envision how Maria would know of that shoe in detail. And there are other reports with similar improbability. So we don't know and cannot foreclose the possibility of some transcendent event, no matter how much we may wish to.



We don't have access to whatever actually transpired, who happened to be precisely where in what position in any moment in time, what their peripheral vision picked up, etc....what is telling is the willingness to consider extraordinary explanations over natural possibilities, perhaps because the mundane is not as appealing as the fantastic, a ghost in the machine, the promise of something more, god to look after us, an afterlife.

''The unconscious mind is still viewed by many psychological scientists as the shadow of a “real” conscious mind, though there now exists substantial evidence that the unconscious is not identifiably less flexible, complex, controlling, deliberative, or action-oriented than is its counterpart. This “conscious-centric” bias is due in part to the operational definition within cognitive psychology that equates unconscious with subliminal. We review the evidence challenging this restricted view of the unconscious emerging from contemporary social cognition research, which has traditionally defined the unconscious in terms of its unintentional nature; this research has demonstrated the existence of several independent unconscious behavioral guidance systems: perceptual, evaluative, and motivational. From this perspective, it is concluded that in both phylogeny and ontogeny, actions of an unconscious mind precede the arrival of a conscious mind—that action precedes reflection.''

Last edited by DBT; 07/19/19.