PSYB57H3 Chapter 7: C85 Ch7
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Meaning no. 1: not conscious or knowing within oneself; unaware, regardless, heedless: simplest use: those beings that lack consciousness entirely, a more interesting use: beings that are capable of consciousness. But are animals truly unconscious? by that"re not conscious of some particular event or class of events. Meaning no. 2: not characterized by, or endowed with, the faculty or presence of consciousness: sleep, fainting, coma, epilepsy and other unconscious", temporarily devoid of consciousness: we may be unconscious for a while but return to consciousness later. Every latent idea was so b/c it was weak and that it grew conscious as soon as it became strong. Latent ideas that present themselves to consciousness as they gain strength were to be called preconscious (distinguished from unconscious) Meaning no. 3: not realized or known as existing in oneself: unlike the first definition unconscious is psychologically real, unlike the second definition what"s now unconscious may never have been conscious.
