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The deeper self composed of cultural values; Jiang contrasts it with the conscious self.
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Subconscious
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...is neuroscience, okay? They do divide between a conscious and a subconscious, right? Subconscious. The conscious is this decision -making, whereas subconscious determines our..."
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Jiang's neuroscience framing divides the conscious mind from the subconscious and says the conscious self mainly rationalizes actions already determined by emotion.
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He sharpens that framing into the provocative claim that who you really are is your subconscious rather than your conscious self-image.
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Jiang says that when one knows the Italian, meaning is captured in the language itself, so the sounds can generate subconscious images and excite a connection to the divine.
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He models Patroclus and Achilles as internally layered actors, directors, and producers: emotion, calculation, and long-term strategy operate simultaneously inside each person.
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Muscle memory is used as evidence that training can remain in the subconscious even if conscious identity and memories disappear.
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After religious and royal authority are rejected, mythology becomes the subconscious operating system that guides revolutionary society.
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Cultural values are the most persistent part of the self because they live in the subconscious; ultimately, Jiang says, you are your subconscious.
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Proto-Indo-European groups could assimilate into different environments and look physically different while retaining a shared subconscious value system that shaped worldview, mythology, literature, and language.
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"...is neuroscience, okay? They do divide between a conscious and a subconscious, right? Subconscious. The conscious is this decision -making, whereas subconscious determines our..."
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"Okay, so do you guys understand what's happening here? Okay, I'm just making these assumptions just trying to figure out what he's trying to..."
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"He refuses to apologize. But he tells Patroclus, listen, we can't get Achilles to fight, but maybe you can fight for us. And maybe..."
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"Planning level, all right? So imagine three different individuals together in Patroclus. The first person is the actor, okay? The person who appears before..."
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"...ego. Or maybe you can think of this as the conscious subconscious, all right?"
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"...as if you have achieved that goal. And so then your subconscious moves you into the reality where you do get that big house..."
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"behavior certain actions in us okay so we're all programmable with a certain degree okay so to better understand this let me give you..."
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"...because you've been trained it's muscle memory it's in it's your subconscious so that's a trick here the trick is to train you in..."
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"...guides society now? And the answer is mythologies. Mythologies are the subconscious operating system of society. Does that make sense? So what mythology does..."
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"...part of who you are. Why? Because it's part of your subconscious. Okay? There's a conscious you, and there's a subconscious. And ultimately, you..."
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"So, even though the Proto -Indo -Europeans, they were going into different environments, and they were assimilating themselves into different environments, and they looked..."
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"of the I never forgot about her, and it was this love for Beatrice that would inspire him to create the Divine Comedy, which..."
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