(b) That it is claimed that Dianetics is an exact science.
6.6. The Commission anticipated proof of these claims. No such proof was presented
to the Commission.
B. The Theory of Dianetics:
(a) The Reactive and Analytical Minds.
6.7. According to Mr. Hubbard the human "mind" consists of three divisions, namely, the
"analytical mind", the "reactive mind" and the "somatic mind".
6.8. The analytical mind is the "I" (the centre of awareness) and can be compared with
a "computer" and possesses the following characteristics:
(a) It analyses data.
(b) It is a perfect computer.
(c) It is infallible.
(d) In order to operate it requires data: Percepts, memory and imagination.
(e) It records all conscious forms of experience (or "knowingness"):
Each perception, sight, sound, smell, taste, organic sensation, pain,
rhythm, ciresthesia and emotion is fully, properly and neatly filed
in the "standard banks".
(f) It constantly weighs fresh experience in the light of old experience,
makes fresh deductions in the light of former, previous or old ones,
draws new conclusions, and generally is intent on being correct at all
times.
There is no question of the analytical mind making any error except those errors which flow from
insufficient or erroneous but accepted data.
6.9. The reactive mind is the sub-mind which until now man regarded as underlying his
conscious mind, but which Dianetics has discovered to be the only mind that is always conscious.
6.10. The reactive mind is energetic. It does not remember but records and uses the
recordings only to pr[?] action - "It does not 'think'; it selects recordings and impinges
them upon the 'conscious' mind and the body without the knowledge or consent of the individual."1
The only knowledge which the individual has of such action is intermittent realization that he
does not act rationally in regard to one matter or another and cannot understand why this is so.
6.11. The reactive mind reacts exclusively to physical pain and painful emotions. It is
not under volitional control but works as a stimulus-response basis. It reacts on the same basis
as the animal's mind. Recordings are not taken up as memory or experience but only as forces
to be reactivated. It receives its recordings as cellular engrams when the conscious mind is
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1Hubbard L. Ron: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health: Op.cit., p. xii.
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