Mind and Body

Can, and if it can how far, our minds control our bodies?

We rely upon the conscious, unconscious and subconscious parts of our brains to keep our bodies up and running without too much effort on our parts. But of course this isn't how it works.

If we had to rely on the conscious part of our brain in order to breathe, then we would never be able to sleep. Things that we entrust to our subconscious brain are sometimes events, memories, people that the conscious part of our brain wouldn't be able to process into images, sounds, smells etc that would be recognizable to our senses. We are not too good at so-called reverse sense transcription.

In fact we have almost no conscious control over recall. Memories are triggered by external impulses not internal conscious decisions. However, memories can also be used (and abused) by the subconscious.

Conscious is ready, unconscious is standby, subconscious is a whole different ball-game.

The subconscious is the part of the brain that we hope stays underground where it should. But how do we know it does?