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How your conscious and unconscious mind interact

The Conversation · 🇦🇺 public Australia · · 941 words · By Samantha Brooks
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The article discusses the evolution of scientific understanding regarding the unconscious mind, linking modern cognitive neuroscience to Sigmund Freud's early theories. It explores various models of consciousness, including Global Workspace Theory, Integrated Information Theory, and the Free Energy Principle.

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What happened

Have you ever heard the phrase “you only use 10% of your brain”?

Why it matters

In reality, there is no way of measuring the percentage terms of consciousness – partly because the brain has no static baseline.

Common ground

However, there is a general consensus among neuroscientists now that most of the brain’s processes are unconscious.

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No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

The article discusses the evolution of scientific understanding regarding the unconscious mind, linking modern cognitive neuroscience to Sigmund Freud's early theories. It explores various models of consciousness, including Global Workspace Theory, Integrated Information Theory, and the Free Energy Principle.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 18 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “They wrote that mental health symptoms like anxiety, phobias and compulsions emerge from unresolved unconscious thoughts”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of irrelevant search results about a video game ('Brawl Stars'), providing no information regarding Freud or Breuer's theories on anxiety and phobias.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jul 16, 2026 · The June 2026 update adds 5 new game modes and 2 seasonal power systems. Here's how Topple the Tower, Combat Cooking, Food Fight, Mecha Guard, NanoPowers, and Fusions actually work.
https://trophycoach.com/brawl-stars/guides/brawl-stars-june-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Nanopowers are temporary abilities introduced during the June 2026 Update for the Ramen Rebellion Event. Baseline Powers are applied to Shelly, Rare, and Super Rare Brawlers.
https://brawlstars.fandom.com/wiki/Nanopowers
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web search NEUTRAL — Jul 7, 2026 · Brawl Stars Nano Power, Perfect Analysis from Strongest to Weakest This video analyzes and compares the performance of new Nano Powers in Brawl Stars. Discover the characteristics of eac…
https://vortexgaming.io/en/postdetail/1208866
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Claim 2: “The founder of neuropsychoanalysis Mark Solms – along with neuroscientist and psychoanalyst Karl Friston – in 2010 pioneered a new theory... called the Free Energy Principle (FEP)”
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Claim 3: “Infantile amnesia occurs until about three years old”
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Claim 4: “Declarative memory recall is conscious”
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Multiple independent sources (Quizlet, Brainly, and Medical Xpress) confirm that declarative memory involves the conscious recall of facts and experiences.
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web search NEUTRAL — Non-declarative memories involve unconscious, automatic recall. And Freud’s structural model of the mind again arguably fits in with our understanding of cognition. Freud proposed id made up the primi…
https://theconversation.com/how-your-conscious-and-unconscio…
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web search NEUTRAL — Declarative memory is the conscious recall of facts and personal experiences, stored as long-term memory. It includes episodic memory for personal events and semantic memory for factual information. T…
https://brainly.com/question/45228902
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web search NEUTRAL — Declarative memory allows for conscious recall of facts and experiences, essential for learning and communication, while implicit memory influences behaviors and skills without conscious awareness, im…
https://quizlet.com/study-guides/understanding-memory-types-…
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Claim 5: “Freud, in 1895, proposed that the unconscious mind hides sexual and aggressive wishes, in his book with his colleague Josef Breuer Studies in Hysteria”
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Wikipedia confirms 'Studies on Hysteria' was published in 1895 by Freud and Breuer. Web results specifically link the book to the proposal that the unconscious hides sexual and aggressive wishes.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of writings published by Sigmund Freud. Books are either linked or in italics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud_bibliography
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Studies on Hysteria (German: Studien über Hysterie) is an 1895 book by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, and the physician Josef Breuer. It consists of a joint introductory paper (reprinte…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studies_on_Hysteria
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — "The Aetiology of Hysteria" (German: Zur Ätiologie der Hysterie) is a paper by Sigmund Freud about the child sexual abuse of children before the age of puberty, and its possible causation of mental il…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aetiology_of_Hysteria
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Claim 6: “metacognition (awareness of your own thought processes) which is linked to the brain’s prefrontal cortex”
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Multiple sources link metacognition and higher-order cognitive functions to the prefrontal cortex, specifically mentioning the anterior prefrontal cortex (Brodmann area 10).
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web search NEUTRAL — This brain region is involved in a wide range of higher-order cognitive functions, including speech formation (Broca's area), gaze (frontal eye fields), working memory (dorsolateral prefrontal cortex)…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefrontal_cortex
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web search NEUTRAL — This process is heavily linked to the prefrontal cortex, the area of the brain responsible for complex decision-making and personality expression. By cultivating this skill, individuals can regulate t…
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kenneth-parrott-116144158_neu…
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web search NEUTRAL — The brain does not just think. It watches itself thinking.The anterior prefrontal cortex, specifically Brodmann area 10, is the region most consistently linked to metacognitive accuracy.
https://www.mindomax.com/metacognition-how-thinking-about-yo…
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Claim 7: “neuroscientists can show study participants hidden flashes of “subliminal” happy or horrified faces... their amygdala (the arousal region of the brain) will show increased activation”
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Claim 8: “Psychologist Daniel Kahneman in his 2011 book Thinking Fast and Slow... proposed we have two modes of thinking where system 1 is a fast process that is impulsive and largely unconscious, whereas system 2 is a slow process that takes effort”
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Claim 9: “IIT suggests that there are gradients of consciousness. The degree and complexity of integration between brain regions determines how “much” consciousness (“phi”) an organism has”
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Claim 10: “Essential functions, like heart rate, body temperature, hunger and thirst regulation are unconsciously rooted”
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Claim 11: “The superego could be reflected in the brain’s limbic system, which regulates your emotions and behaviour”
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Three independent sources confirm that the limbic system is responsible for regulating emotions and behavior.
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web search NEUTRAL — The limbic system regulates those automatic responses to emotional stimuli and plays an important role in behavior. Other places in the brain, such as the frontal regions (executive functioning center…
https://www.theottoolbox.com/the-limbic-system-and-function/
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web search NEUTRAL — The limbic system is the "regulator", regulating many core brain functions, including...The behavior that ensuesThe emotion associated with that response or behavior
https://www.o8t.com/blog/limbic-system
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web search NEUTRAL — The limbic system regulates emotions and memory by processing and interpreting sensory information and linking it to emotional responses.
https://www.tutorchase.com/answers/ib/biology/how-does-the-l…
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Claim 12: “The Global Workspace Theory (GWT), and the Intergrated Information Theory (IIT)”
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Claim 13: “behaviourism became dominant in the 1920s, with psychologists like J.B. Watson, in his “behaviourist manifesto” championing the view that only measurable behaviour should be considered in science”
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The provided Wikipedia results are for an art historian, a trucking company, and a Manson Family member, none of whom are the psychologist J.B. Watson. No evidence regarding the 'behaviorist manifesto' was provided in the results.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sir Francis John Bagott Watson, (24 August 1907 – 27 September 1992) was a British art historian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Watson_(art_historian)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. is an American transportation and logistics company based in Lowell, Arkansas. It was founded by Johnnie Bryan Hunt and Johnelle Hunt in Arkansas on August 10, 1961.…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._Hunt
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Charles Denton "Tex" Watson (born December 2, 1945) is an American convicted mass murderer and former central member of the "Manson Family" led by Charles Manson. Watson is frequently identified as th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex_Watson
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Claim 14: “the Free Energy Principle (FEP) suggests the brain’s main role is to predict what will keep you alive and feeling good”
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Claim 15: “Non-declarative memories involve unconscious, automatic recall”
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Multiple sources confirm that non-declarative (implicit) memory involves unconscious, automatic recall of behaviors and skills.
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web search NEUTRAL — Declarative memory recall is conscious, like trying to remember the sequence of numbers on your credit card. Non-declarative memories involve unconscious, automatic recall.
https://theconversation.com/how-your-conscious-and-unconscio…
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web search NEUTRAL — Declarative memory flexible and explicitly verbalizable, non-declarative more rigid and performance-based. Declarative includes episodic (personal experiences) and semantic (general knowledge) subtype…
https://fiveable.me/physiology-motivated-behaviors/unit-12/n…
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web search NEUTRAL — Implicit or non-declarative memory is a type of long-term memory that's used unconsciously. It includes learned behaviors or knowledge that we automatically recall and use, like riding a bicycle or re…
https://brainly.com/question/37208467
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Claim 16: “there is a general consensus among neuroscientists now that most of the brain’s processes are unconscious”
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Multiple sources, including a medical news site and a hypnotherapy resource, state that a vast majority of brain activity (cited as 95%) is unconscious.
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web search NEUTRAL — Neuroscientists may study topics from the large hemispheres of the brain to neurotransmitters and synapses occurring in neurons at a micro-level. Some fields that combine psychology and neurobiology i…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscientist
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web search NEUTRAL — Later, neuroscience experiments and brain scanners also made it clear, as my team and I showed in two meta-analyses , that both unconscious and conscious memory play a role in brain processes.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-08-conscious-unconscious…
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web search NEUTRAL — Todays science estimates that 95 percent of our brains activity is unconscious, meaning that the majority of the decisions we make, the actions we take, our emotions and behaviours, depend on the 95 p…
https://www.gailmarrahypnotherapy.com/9-interesting-facts-ab…
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Claim 17: “From the 1980s it became clearer that people’s decision making and behaviour could be influenced without their awareness”
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The provided Wikipedia results discuss a publishing company and the general definition of 'research', but provide no evidence regarding decision-making or unconscious influence from the 1980s.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — RE/Search Publications is an American magazine and book publisher, based in San Francisco, founded by its editor V. Vale in 1980. In several issues, Andrea Juno was also credited as an editor. It was …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RE/Search_Publications
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Research is creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge. It involves the collection, organization, and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, charact…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Research is a systematic work to create new knowledge or devise new applications of knowledge. However, colloquially it could also refer more specifically to studying currently available knowledge to …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_(disambiguation)
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Claim 18: “Nobel laureate, neuroscientist and psychoanalyst Eric Kandell says we have declarative and non-declarative memory processes”
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Both NobelPrize.org and a medical article confirm Eric Kandel's work and his distinction between declarative (explicit) and non-declarative memory processes.
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web search NEUTRAL — Kandel began to realize that memory storage must rely on modifications in the synaptic connections between neurons and that the complex connectivity of the hippocampus did not provide the best system …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Kandel
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web search NEUTRAL — Nobel laureate, neuroscientist and psychoanalyst Eric Kandell says we have declarative and non-declarative memory processes. Declarative memory recall is conscious, like trying to remember the sequenc…
https://theconversation.com/how-your-conscious-and-unconscio…
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web search NEUTRAL — The hippocampus is involved in explicit (or declarative) memory, memory for people, objects, or places, memories that require conscious participation for recall. For years I tried to encourage people …
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2000/kandel/biogr…
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