The intelligence underlying consciousness

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.1595312530098

• Palavras-chave: implicit intelligence; consciousness; unconscious memory; psychoconstruction; genomics; personality; behavior.

• Keywords: implicit intelligence; consciousness; unconscious memory; psychoconstruction; genomics; personality; behavior.

• Abstract:

  The present study aims to investigate the hypothesis of the existence of a form of intelligence that transcends consciousness, characterized as implicit, instinctive, and subjective. This intelligence operates independently, modulating personality formation and, consequently, behavior. The analysis starts from the consideration of the cerebral subregions involved and, if necessary, the integration with genomic data to identify possible bases for this cognitive structure. The focus is on the interpretation of the "unspoken," that which has no explicit explanation but still shapes the individual. It proposes the existence of a primitive memory, an unconscious psychoconstruction that structures the being, in which intention expresses emotions as if they were endowed with an intelligence adjacent to consciousness. Such intelligence would generate its own records in an implicit memory, susceptible to emerging or not to consciousness through specific stimuli or triggers.