Is it Possible, do we Think with our Legs?

Our lives, argues Carus, develop through a kind of dialogue between our conscious and our unconscious mind. Certain activities are necessarily unconscious in their character: the acquisition of skills such as composing the letters in a word when writing, or playing notes on a piano correctly, usually implies an effort to establish non-conscious reflexes or to turn conscious knowledge into unconscious knowledge. For knowledge is never truly integrated into our being until we absorb it into our unconscious; otherwise it remains static, purely conceptual…

He suggests that creative insights first come to maturity in the non-rational climate of the unconscious, and then rise triumphantly to consciousness like a light borne up over the waters of the psyche, that reach back into the deep, rich darkness. (Roger Cardinal on Carl Gustav Carus)

The dynamism of knowledge! Has it ever been expressed so well? And the last sentence in the first paragraph: elucidates that feeling when I’m touched by a penetrating passage of a great thinker. The power it conveys, like great art great thoughts release energy; and the sense that the writer has made an idea their own; that its been created afresh.

It also collaborates the intuitions of Hume and Schopenhauer: that thought, even the most abstract, is at root more than mere concepts – there is something very physical about our insights…