You are far closer to an idiot than I agento. Knowing what an idiot is, truly, prevents most idiotic behavior.
The unconscious is what is being hidden by the lack of a proper definition.
There is a valid inference which I've made. I've run it by psychologists. Everyone agrees, they were all to afraid to provide a declaration stating such.
INFERENCE ONE
Relating potentials for hypnotic performance to results of research, practice and experiments of hypnosis. Christopher A. Brown 8/17/01
BASIS 1 of INFERENCE
The first sentance of page 175 of EMOTIONS and MEMORY, 1964, by David Rappaport,
"The general tendency" of the subject to forget the events of the trance after emerging from it."
BASIS 2 of INFERENCE
(1) of the same paragraph states that, "The hypnotist can successfully suggest that no posthypnotic amnesia develop".
Basis 2 Restated; Suggestion conducive to remembering is successful or generally, suggestion effecting memory has effect against a general tendancy.
CONDITIONS OF BASIS OF INFERENCE
The first note page 175, EMOTIONS and MEMORY, Note #8 states (first note below main text) that the results of memory described "in general are valid only with subjects who are able to reach the somanmbulistic stages ofhypnosis."
INFERENCE ONE LOGIC
Logical inference of BASIS 1 with BASIS 2, is that; suggestion to forget will have a greater effect on memory because of the general "tendency to forget". Research confirms with observations of behavior consistent with general hyperamnesia at the top of page 176, the end of a footnote that begins on page 175 stating;
"we find hypnotized people indignantly denying they have been hypnotized."
INFERENCE ONE
If the tendancy is to forget following hypnosis that induces a trance to the level of somanmbulism and suggection effecting memory is successful then suggestion to forget will be more effective than suggestion to remember.
Another general perspective.
What is the correct answer to this question?
Q.What is easier to do than forgetting?
A. I don't remember.
