welcome to the first science of psychology

This blog will be devoted mainly to the impediments to deep learning, creativity, perception and related emotional fulfillment which ordinary people suffer, although the things we will be looking at also relate to more debilitating problems.

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Psychology as it has been practiced up to now addresses the intellect as the source of all problems, including common problems. The intellect is not the mind, and the self which refers to the intellect as its mind can not find the mind, except as a reference to it called "unconscious" or "subconscious" or "instinct" or "intuition". Intelligence is of the mind, not of the intellect, so that to address the intellect with a proposed cure is actually a sham.

The intelligence is an evolved faculty, and is not separate from perception. We begin our lives as merely evolved creatures, and this means as merely intelligent creatures. Evolution/Intelligence becomes "mere" when it is confronted with an environment or situation that is outside its scope, and the only solution to this is to add new related intelligence/perception (which of course is what we will be doing here). This is 'to adapt'! To adopt is intellect, and this is quite the opposite of to adapt.

There is no intellect in early childhood. All our psychological or emotional or attentional problems, if we are not in some way physically defective or deficient, stem from what people have done to us for the purpose of defending themselves from our intelligence/perception. This is much the same thing as a predator insuring his meal by approaching the prey from downwind and making use of available cover.