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Once again, I am posting late. Good job, Sarah. I fell asleep before posting. That almost pertains to our discussion though. My brain making my body do what's on its subconscious agenda, rather than what I consciously want it to do. I brought that up in class as evidence of a true two-part (if not more...?) brain. Things like panic attacks and anxiety disorders wouldn't happen if we were consciously in control of everything our brains do. Sometimes that deeper part, the part we don't always listen to, takes over and makes our bodies act in ways we wouldn't necessarily choose for them to do. Not only do psychosomatic repsonse demonstrate this, but the things we say. The thoughts stored in our subconscious minds influence every word that we say or write. Haven't you ever slipped and said something you didn't mean to? Your subconscious was so focused on that one thing that it overrode what you were consciously trying to say. Speaking of which, do you think about each individual word as you speak? Or is that in and of itself a nearly subconscious function?

And let me just say this now: if we start talking about perception, like whether we can know if we see colors the same way, we're all going to realize that we don't exist. Or at least feel like it. I love discussions like that. Hooray for brains! I feel like there's such an insanely large amount of things I could say about thinking, and perception, and subconsciousness, and oh, so many other brain related things... and that's why this post is shortish. I, simply put, just cannot decide.