@whyyoushouldgoread: Why does our subconscious communicate to us so weirdly? When you say “how should I put this” - what’s the “it” you’re trying to put? Cormac McCarthy wrestled with these questions in one of my favorite essays I’ve ever read, THE KEKULÉ PROBLEM #BookTok #books #cormacmccarthy #consciousness #essays

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ffstevefla8
FFSTEVEFLA8 :
After the Chronetic Code, you realize nothing in life is accidental.
2025-07-28 18:33:09
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ethanferkiss
ethan :
You say subconscious understands human language because that’s how it apprehended the problem. But maybe the problem stemmed from the subconscious and therefore no language was needed.
2025-07-28 22:47:24
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amberalerttx
amberalerttx :
Joe Goldberg… is that you??
2025-07-28 22:48:46
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watson.ats
Watson.Ats :
No It didn't communicate with him, He just dreamt of a snake ring Could mean a lot of things but it js happened to fit
2025-07-28 16:18:07
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shhhhhaaanne
Shane :
commenting to stay on this side of tiktok
2025-07-27 17:02:52
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sparkzaddy
sparkzaddy :
Manipulating your subconscious is the most powerful way to manifest the future you want.
2025-07-28 06:15:57
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eliranjuki
Elira Njuki :
This is why symbols are so powerful in art and are used by political and religious institutions. They bypass conscious cognitive processing influencing us more efficiently 😊✨
2025-07-28 14:19:40
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gamescore
gamescore1 :
language limits potential that lies within abstraction
2025-07-28 07:32:03
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elyas420_69
elyas420 :
Commenting so it stays on the algorithm
2025-07-28 22:57:10
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_____vsxm_____ :
How can I stay on this side of tiktok?
2025-07-28 08:34:48
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motu.is.me
Sabrina :
I love when people know cool things and can articulate them to me
2025-07-28 03:34:50
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xcorvuscorax
xcorvus :
The subconscious isn’t mysterious. If the separation between your consciousness and the unconscious does not exist then you will be aware of all aspects of self to the point of insanity. We are saved as much as we are condemned by how we operate on unknown motivations swimming in the subconscious.
2025-07-27 14:57:23
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oldroundtoad
oldtownroad :
Could it be that language created the illusion that the conscious mind is the show runner and that it was its job to figure stuff out and the rebellion of the subconscious mind is merely a call to a more profound way of relating to the world? How should I put this? There is no it to solve or contend with. Everything already exists and is knowable, the subconscious knows that but the conscious doesn’t. I think.
2025-07-28 22:49:14
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yupyupniceguy
Yuyupnice :
Most discoveries came like that (Benzene Ring – August Kekulé, Periodic Table – Dmitri Mendeleev, Structure of DNA – James Watson (inspired by dreamlike model insight), Alternating Current Motor – Nikola Tesla, Carbon Chains in Organic Chemistry – August Kekulé (first dream), Sewing Machine Needle – Elias Howe, Theory of Relativity Concepts – Albert Einstein (thought experiments), Bohr’s Model of the Atom – Niels Boh ,Table of Logarithms – John Napier (claimed dream inspiration), Google Algorithm Idea – Larry Page (dreamed of downloading the web) . What im trying to say is , when you well rested and invested into a topic you start to make progress, also where most dreams comes from . Dont over think it. Just think about it.
2025-07-27 14:22:51
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brain.warts
$ban :
As a kid when I lost something and I was looking for it, and I couldn’t remember where I put it, or something I wanted to say, she always say stop thinking about it and it’ll come back to you
2025-07-28 22:35:20
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jesusmutedme
jesusmutedme :
Wait the same cormac McCarthy that made the road? Or another one lol also yes I agree. I think non verbal subconscious communication is the first form of communication I think we operated like that for awhile and then we Tower of Babel-ed ourselves into this mess of communication.
2025-07-28 22:08:32
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ethan_laf
Ethan :
I think human consciousness what a mis step in evolution
2025-07-28 00:49:58
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gcrunnels
Gabriella 💜📚 :
I think about and reread that McCarthy essay often. How language actually can obscure meaning. How grafting language onto our subjective experience hides truth and degrades real understanding. I’ve actually been planning a video on this topic at some point!
2025-07-27 19:32:20
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ritualage
Letters to Yourself :
Eros speaks thru image, logos thru word. The printed word is a pale reflection of the sort of image the unconscious eros produces for the conscious mind to consume. But if logos has its pale image to vaguely reflect the image-making machine that is the uncosncious psyche, what pale “word” does the unconscious psyche contain to represent human consciousness? A: ego. “We”, our conscious mind, is surrounded by the uncosncious psyche which produced it. Horus sits on the lap of Isis, Jesus on the lap of Mary, the bishop on the “cathedra”, the king on the throne. It’s the same image of consciousness floating on the lotus flower of the unconscious — “turtles all the way down”. It’s hubris to imagine the uncosncious as “sub”, it’s just as often “supra” - consciousness. Why did you pick this topic to discuss? hint: the unconscious “seeded” the idea to you, your consicousness picked up in it, discovered aspects it still did not know, and then the unconscious supplied answers to its own question. That’s how Isis and Horus, Mary and Jesus, Cathedral and bishop, throne and king, unconscious and conscious, image and word, work, paycholigically.
2025-07-27 02:15:33
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sanjuankhan
Sequiler :
Mendeleev (the inventor of periodic table) also had his epiphany in sleep. But idk if it has anything to do with mysticism or anything, just kinda resting brain figuring stuff out while processing info? It is not like these people were randos and got send scientific discoveries by some spirit. I also had moments in my life when I struggled with a solution (I am software engineer), then it will suddenly come to me in bed, so I have to go to laptop to write it down 😅😅. That is pretty common afaik, and not supernatural at all
2025-07-28 08:09:05
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gabrielnoblitt
Gabe Noblitt :
Read Jung’s Red Book
2025-07-28 21:32:25
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eringb_ftw2
Erin! :
I think in pictures and have to "translate" into words to communicate
2025-07-28 05:22:07
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kamdollarsign
KAM$ :
Its wasnt just his Subconscious speaking to him, it was Spiritual.
2025-07-28 05:30:08
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_sp00ncer_
_spooncer_ :
Great content homie. Also, love the word “extant.” Doesn’t get used anywhere near enough.
2025-07-27 17:21:08
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bobbysuger
Bobby Suger :
Was it communicating or was it arbitrary? How many dreams does he forget and how many are meaningless? Humans love a pattern
2025-07-28 01:04:06
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