Human beings believe they live their lives consciously; that they are aware of their surroundings and know what is happening around them at all times. Yet a deeper analysis of the word conscious leads to a thought process more confusing than a human being could understand. Carl Jung's Personal and Collective Unconscious believes that "the unconscious contains only those parts of the personality which could just as easily be conscious and which are in fact suppressed only by education" (344). In a more simplistic form, it says that the human brain is actually a more unconscious thought process and that what the brain produces to be conscious can actually be described as unconscious. Francis Crick's The General Nature of Consciousness similarly agrees that "people are not conscious of all the processes going on in their heads" (405). These two scientists argue on the same side of the psychological debate that the average human belief in consciousness is not what we think it is. The other view on the debate is that the unconscious and the conscious concern entirely different aspects of our minds. Human beings actually live most of their lives consciously, as a scientist named K. Koffka believes. Koffka states that "the mind and all that is specifically conscious, so everything mental must be thought of in terms of consciousness, even if it is not conscious itself" (Koffka). If examined in detail, Koffka firmly believes that everything we say and do during the course of a day is under the complete control of the conscious part of our mind. However, he makes it clear that he also believes that unconsciousness also exists. “Consequently, when it was considered necessary to go beyond consciousness in the description and exploration of the mind, we imagined the non-conscious mind, fundamentally similar, that is to say in all its aspects or properties except being conscious” (Koffka).Jung makes a valid point that what we believe to be conscious is actually what the unconscious describes to us. When we delve deeper into the topic, our brain receives a message from our senses and then relays that information to us. We believe that we have consciously created these thought processes. The real question is, have you actually stopped and become unconscious of your surroundings, consciously, then...... middle of paper ...... the number of doctors who believe that the unconscious is our conscious self far outweighs that of those who believe in total consciousness. In the case of consciousness versus unconsciousness, it is fair to say that we live a life of what we believe to be conscious, but in fact it is more of an unconscious effort to maintain what we let's describe. to ourselves as consciousness. The truth behind all these facts is that these two scientists have put a lot of work into their theories and believe that the blank between all the impressions is that we actually practice a life of unconsciousness almost all at once and that the little consciousness in reality The testimony is all that the human race really needs to cope with this experience in all its normal daily activities. Work Cited Jacobus, Lee A. A World Of Ideas. 6th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin, 2002. 344-354; 399-408. Whyte, Lancelot law. The unconscious before Freud. 1st ed. New York: Basic Books Inc, 1960 (Why 17-30) Koffka, k. “On the structure of the unconscious.” The unconscious: a conference. Ed. . Freeport: Books for Libraries Press Inc, 1966. 43-68. (Koffka)