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Neuroscience Confirms Your Subconscious Shapes Your Reality
Groundbreaking neuroscience confirms what Sigmund Freud first theorized: that what we believe to be the objective reality surrounding us is actually formed by our subconscious. David Eagleman, who wrote and filmed a 2015 PBS documentary on our "inner cosmos," explains: "Neuroscience has drifted off a little bit from the directions that Freud was going in terms of the interpretations of whether your unconscious mind is sending you particular hidden signals and so on.
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I don't get all the people who like to bash Freud, Jung, etc. Sure, they had a lot of weird beliefs and that reflected in their work. Still they were the first to actually think about how the mind works in a rational way. Pretty much every other field of science had people saying crazy shit at the beginning, but for some reason it seems that the psychoanalysts get much more criticism. If anything, I'd say that they followed the scientific method a lot more than the early medical doctors and chemists.