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Episode 265: Kekulé (Oh Yeah!)

Very Bad Wizards

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The Unconscious's Access to the Outer World

I like that the idea that dreams, because a lot of dreams are frivolous. No one's going to write an essay about when Kukule dreamed about a bird and it had no effect on his knowledge of the beds. I think it's arguing against an idea that we filter all sensory experience through language first before it can get to our unconscious. And I also love, does it know that it's going to die? Yeah. But maybe a lot of the times it's just like actually not concerned with that. That's the other thing. It's a black box. It's like chat GPT, non chat GPT. All right. Join us next time on Very Bad.

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