The Effect of Metaphors on Consciousness

Susan Blackmore: The metaphors you use have an impact on your intuitions about consciousness. She says the only reason people see their consciousness in terms of a stream is because of the specific way that people are often asked to observe their own consciousness. But at some other level, rationally we know that there were tons of different unconscious meta processes going on,. all doing their own things, sometimes interacting with each other, most of the time not.