On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 08:58:08 -0400 Ted Winslow <winslow at yorku.ca> wrote:
> >The unconscious knows things in a way that the conscious self does not...
> How do you know this?
Because breathing happens whether I consciously think about it or not. Desires alone don't make the body go, the drives do.
> > Well, if you're saying that psychobabble simply makes things up... there is a
> > tremendous amount of clinical evidence that points to the contrary...
> This presupposes a subject for whom evidence can point to something, doesn't
it? For whom can evidence point to the non-existence of any subject for whom
evidence could point?
Psychobabble doesn't presuppose a subject. It simply asks the question "Who is speaking?" As it turns out, there is never just one voice, there are many voices. And, try as I might, I can't figure out what your last sentence means.
ken