The Four Functional "Dimensions" of the Mind

Cirumstantial
    Variety         First Dimension    Second Dimension                                  Third Dimenson                                                                     Fourth Dimension
Degree Unconscious and
instinctive		 Conscious and
information
 Conscious and voluntary Consciousness itself acting
Origin Inborn congential Aquired,
informative		 Acquired, progressive Acquired, pragmatic
Principle
anatomic
localization		 Peripheral sympathetic
and central- hypothamic
region and basal gray
nuclei		 Sense organs,
inputs and
afferent pathways,
cortex with its
reticular, thalamic,
cerebellar, etc.,
connections		 Cortex:
  • interhemispheric association pathways
  • recurrent connections with hypothalamic and glandular regions
  • the entire diencephalon and mesencephalon
  • efferent output fibers
 Cortex with its vast system of connections with
feedback and feedforward
Original
essential
functions		 Homostasis and
maintenance of
constancy of the internal
milieu for vital essential
functions		 Perception
Selection
Symbolization
Definition    
Code
Image- plan  
Idea
Registration
Memory
Internal language
 Association of ideas, of code words, computation by matching ie,
comparison or contrast, establishment of relationships, judgement,  choice, free will
Initiative of the motor act
External language		 Constituted mind:
Internal temporal function in full exercise and activiity
  • knowledge of the virtual has become real
  • behavior former potential has become actual
  • the "ego" is included in the actual
  • consciousness is this double recognition of the ego in the present
Action of
sleep		 Liberated in the 
dream		 Inhibited in sleep Liberal inhibition in the dream Notion of time disappeared; that of space persists
External
spatio-
temporal
relationship		 Indirect adaptive
through vasomotor
respiratory,
sympathetic,
systems, etc.
Adaptive
adjustment		 Tentative action this external space Internal psychological time is dissociated from it
Derived
functions		 Automatism of
adaptation and
survival		 Constitution of
subjectivity		 Constitution of objectivity in view of the action Junction of subjective and objective; the potential
has become actual in view of the mental creation