The Unconscious
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What Is the Difference Between Consciousness and Unconsciousness?
Psychologists mask stimuli by presenting information under forty mila seconds, which is the threshold of conscious awareness in most adult subjects. The difference between seeing it consciously and seeing it unconsciously is only based on the amount of time that it was shown to them. There's also the cocktail party effect where we can devote all our attentional resources to isolating a conversation and pushing everything else into the background. Yet even though we push all the other stimuli into the background, which is happening alive, like you said, kind of like that musical track underneath the song of jessie and the pussy cats,. Even though we push it in the background, our brain continues to track it and to interpret it.
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