All perception is unconscious projection that civilization must learn to control

Evidence

This last term is used by Gramsci to mean the uncritical and largely unconscious way of perceiving and understanding the world that has become “common” in any given epoch. (Correspondingly he uses the phrase “good sense” to mean the practical, but not necessarily rational or scientific attitude that in English is usually called common sense.) The critique of “common sense” and that of “the philosophy of the philosophers” are therefore complementary aspects of a single ideological struggle. This struggle must be waged, as Gramsci himself wages it, with the utmost intensity, but its ultimate resolution lies on another terrain, that of “revolutionising praxis”, which alone can determine the forms of thought appropriate to the new age. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1165 (#expands, via linked claim)

Neural networks are nonethical. The unconscious neural processes have neither a sense of personal responsibility nor morality. The issue of morality arises in the purposes to which behavior is put, the means that are used, and the human consequences of the actions. A deterministic thesis that humans have no conscious control over what they do, in fact, is a position on morality—it is one of moral nonaccountability. Such a view is socially consequential. Does a nonagentic conception of human nature erode the personal and social ethics that undergird a civil society? How would people create and maintain a civil society if its members were divested of any conscious regulation for their actions? — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 315 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Denying conscious control is itself a moral position of nonaccountability — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 315; Common sense is the uncritical, unconscious worldview common to an epoch — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1165; Power operates partly through perception rather than explicit verbal communication (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Common sense is the uncritical, unconscious worldview common to an epoch #expands (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1165
• Unconsciousness is the precondition for consciousness to emerge. #expands (0.80)
• Denying conscious control is itself a moral position of nonaccountability #complicates (0.78) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 315
• Liberation-from-control paradoxically requires self-control by a prior autonomous self #contradicts (0.74)
• Power operates partly through perception rather than explicit verbal communication #expands (0.72)
• Unconscious judgment and system harshness both paradoxically increase system-justification #exemplifies (0.72) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2939