Authority of Priority

How do we prioritize actions to take in general life?

Throughout general life, there can be a few trillion or so potential actions we could take, so what drives the priority, for our main motivations?

This relates back to the “Equation of Action”, which often depends on whether the route of action is being taken by result of instinct, subconscious reaction, or conscious consideration.

When subconscious is used constantly to prioritize, then we will take the action of whatever is presently triggering our feedback. Actions will always be prioritized by what is temporarily pressing, and signaling feedback triggers in mind, that something should be avoided or pursued. Since subconscious only deals with simple circumstances and simple memories, it wont make the connection of the concept of the future, and future important factors.

Considering what will occur further in the future, takes a few concepts of cause and effect to be understood, and accessed as memory. It takes the complexity of conscious analysis. When you access enough details of memories, that you understand the cause and effect of one action to another, and therefore future impacts of current actions, then you’re using conscious thought, rather than subconscious. If conscious comprehension can make the connections to future events occurring, which will be relevant and important, this can significantly change the priority of action in the present.

For eg. the subconscious might prioritize eating sugary food, because that food is available, and there is positive feedback in the brain, as a reward to eating sugar. But with conscious analysis, exercise might be prioritized, because of the understanding of the future connections of concepts, and that you will be healthier and happier longer term.

So if we allow our priority of actions to be ordered by subconscious, on a daily basis, we may achieve temporary positivity, but those gains are only calculated to be short term. With the complicated world of today, if we want longer lasting, more sustainable positivity, we need to use conscious analysis to prioritize our actions. This is likely to cause longer positive gain individually, but would also allow comprehension and therein action toward wider spread positive gain for society, or community, or the entire planet.

Deep conscious analysis doesn’t have to be done constantly to keep an effective priority of actions, just repeated periodically enough to overview actions which are being taken throughout daily life. At those periods of conscious analysis, re-evaluation of actions can set the prioritization until the next time of conscious consideration. As long as the conscious reprioritization is repeated often enough, it should set the standard, and regulation for the times in between, when subconscious is the director of action. Your subconscious wont remember the details or reasons why your conscious analysis set these priorities, but you subconscious will still remember the general circumstances of your new standards for priority. That's all it takes for subconscious, to be redirected after enough repetition.

Indistinctivity

The meaning of the title of this post, and the meaning of this topic, is indistinct.

Every word and virtually everything on macro scale, is indistinct to some degree. Every word I type, or any word you use, has a general intended meaning, and general interpretation by the receiver of the words, but every person has a slightly different interpretation and understanding of exactly what any word means. So, since a word is only as good as the meaning it communicates, it will always be inexact and imprecise (to at least a small degree).

As words are combined into sentences, the meaning only becomes less and less distinct, as the imprecision of the words adds up, and the context of each word relative to other words, increases the indistinctivity of vocabulary.

Any object in this world is only labelled and categorized by vocabulary, so the distinction of an object depends on the label given to it. Since that label is as indistinct as the variances of interpretation from one person to another, an object can not be absolutely distinctly 1 thing or another. You can assume a spherical object is a “ball”, but for it to be absolutely distinctly a ball, it would have to fit exactly, the interpretation of what a “ball” is. Whether or not people realize it, they all have slight variances in their interpretation of what would be considered a “ball”. The size, material, smoothness, and roundness all differ. So for something to be considered a “ball” by the perspective of everyone, there would be conflicts of the subconscious interpretation, and no distinct agreed upon perimeters of what fits that term.

Since any given person's understanding of, that which fits a vocabularic term, depends on their subconscious memory of what is included for that term, the most distinct interpretation they can have of a term, changes slightly after every instance of encountering or perceiving that object, word, or term. After every encounter with a “ball”, someones subconscious is influenced slightly and subtly, of the extents of what would be considered a “ball”. Since memory of anything is so finicky, when considering absolute accuracy, even if 1 or 2 neurons out of 1 billion are accessed differently in future comprehension of a word (based on encountering or perceiving it), that person’s subconscious interpretation of that word has changed. This is how indistinct the meaning of a word is.

Within context of the perspective of only 1 or few people, you could have an object distinctly fit, within its label of intended meaning. If the person within the context of referring to a ball, has an interpretation of a “ball”, which includes a wide enough range of parameters, an object could fit within the range distinctly. The person’s interpretation of what fits the description of a ball would be indistinct over time, depending on their changing subconscious neural access, but at any given instance, they would have a distinct interpretation, as accurate as the number of neurons they access, related to the memory of what that term includes. So something can distinctly fit within someone’s range of interpretation for that term, but their interpretation for any term is indistinct over time, or with more than 1 person, the outlines of what is included to count as a term, is indistinct.

If the meaning and interpretation of this concept seem to be as difficult comprehend, that may be because it is indistinct.

Carry the Concept

How relevant is the concept of a concept?

Let's consider a “concept” to be basically; the function of cause and effect, involving a set of variables, which are within the required degree, to cause the same result, within the context.

So with any concept, the variables involved can be adaptable, but can only change to a maximum degree, required by the context of the concept, in order to still have the same result. If the variables go beyond the maximum degree, the cause and effect of the variables (relative to each other), will result differently than what the concept is extended to include.

What I just outlined, is an example of a concept in itself. I vaguely described the maximum variances (which would be variables fitting within maximum variances), in order to fit the result, which is relative to the concept. That is the concept, of a “concept”, even if perhaps a bit difficult to understand, and intangible, as an example…

But the relevance of “concepts”, seems quite significant. If it’s virtually the ability to relate the cause, effect, and result of 1 scenario, based on comprehension of the interaction of the variables, to then apply the relevant cause and effect to alternate scenarios, then concepts are a very important element in intelligence and likely the prosperance of humanity. Analysis, Processing, Comprehension, and Understanding are a profound tool used to more accurately predict outcomes for humans, potentially giving us the intelligence advantage. “Concepts” are a very important element involved in this general intelligence advantage, since by understanding cause and effect of the variables, to then apply it to new circumstances, and make more accurate predictions, it is “carrying the concept”.

So if the ability to carry a concept, by comprehending the accurate cause and effect of variables relative to the result, is basically the pivot point directing intelligence, then the concept of a concept seems to be profoundly relevant and significant.

By understanding the general concept of a concept itself, we should become more aware of the significant advantages of carrying concepts. We can apply the use of concepts (which we have previously learned) within everyday life and decisions, to new circumstances which arise and involve the relevant variables. Once you are more conscious of concepts, you can implement use of related concepts to new scenarios, more often, and cause more preferable outcomes, by choosing the factors which cause the most preferable effect.

Using the concept on itself,.. we can carry the concept, of carrying the concept.