Can you revert to 'not knowing' on purpose? Can you 'forget' on purpose?
Just as we forget unintentionally; we often "believe unintentionally"; therefore we can't recognize "unwittingly believing"; if we did, it would not be unintentional/unwitting.
I use the 'placebo effect' to demonstrate 'unwittingly believing' a false thought. That demo is not a isolated incident, but points out a unrecognized, unacknowledged "malady" rampant in our populace. For a moment, think of 'placebo effect' as "amnesic believing".
Some people think they vicariously understand the 'subjects' thinking. How can they, if they can't revert to not knowing the pills are fake , like the 'subject' does not know. They can't replicate 'amnesic believing' in order to vicariously replicate the experience, ( this is not important, I'm "drifting with that last sentence).
I've been asking you readers to "know what you don't/can't know what/when your doing it"; like sleep walking. Donald Rumsfeld said'
"There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are things we do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know."
Another example of not knowing when one is believing a false thought, while doing it; "I thought the gun was empty.' (such 'accidents" are on the news at least once a year.)
When we don't know we are believing a false thought, we are unaware of doing so; and cannot avoid untoward reactions/experiencing as a result of such 'unwittingly believing.'
I quote Rick Hanson;"...studies show that people can feel threatened by stimuli they're not actually aware of." My point is; when we're not aware of believing some of our images are real; of course we react to them AS IF they were external; as if reacting to "empirical perceptions".
