With the combinations of varying degrees of consciousness, what complications arise?
If there is 3 basic categorized Planes of consciousness being; 1) Instinct, 2) Subconscious, and 3) Consciousness, then it seems there would likely be complications when all 3 are regularly used to varying degrees. Humans seem to use all 3 pretty much (if not) every day that they are awake and interactive with their environment.
Assuming each Plane of Consciousness overrides the lower Plane, under circumstances with sufficient time allowance + requirement by quantity of variables (as explained in my previous post), then throughout the day, when these scenarios occur, conscious awareness would be used. Whereas the remaining times of the day, when time is more pressing or there is minimal variables involved, the lower planes (of subconscious or instinct) would be used. But when all 3 are used regularly, how do they affect each other?
Since instinct is basically preset triggers, it should be unaltered by sensory input or memories. But, as evolution slowly occurs, allowing beneficial aspects to persist in procreation, this would include beneficial instincts which adapt to the subconscious. So, if a certain reaction to sensory input proves to be beneficial persistently, it would gradually become a preset instinctual trigger. But short-term, in any individual animals lifespan, sensory input (and subconsciousness) would not alter instinct.
On the other hand, since subconsciousness is based on short-term recordings, combined with feedback (which is linked with those memories), instinctual preset triggers would have a significant influence on the subconscious. This is because the animals instinct would be the initial reaction to any new circumstances. This would cause feedback, therein determining the future subconscious reaction, when similar circumstances are involved. Besides instinct causing the initial reaction of new circumstances, it also causes the feedback to the result of the reaction. Basically, feedback is instinct, as it developed (from subconscious capabilities) to give positive or negative reinforcement to generalized results of reactions. The reinforcement (to general groupings of reactions) which proved to allow that animal to survive, would pass on as instinct. Pain became an instinct, as negative reinforcement to the generalized occurrence of harm to the individual. Endorphins became instinct, to consuming nutrition.
So, instinct is only altered by subconscious activity, very gradually by natural selection, but subconsciousness is altered virtually every time, by instinctual feedback.
Consciousness is basically the same concept as subconsciousness, just more detailed in memories which are compared and considered, so it would be similarly affected by instinct. Instinctual feedback would have the same cause of positive or negative influence, on conscious memories (which are accessed), but since there’s a profoundly higher quantity of potential memories (as a result of detail of memories + combinations of these details), the feedback can vary significantly more, depending on which memories are accessed.
Consciousness would be affected by subconsciousness in a similar way that subconsciousness is affected by instinct. Since subconsciousness is used before consciousness (with a lack of a sufficient quantity of information), the result of conscious thought is determined by previous subconscious activity. With instinctual feedback causing subconsciousness reactions toward certain circumstances, consciousness would then access differing memories, based on those subconscious occurrences.
Subconsciousness would also be affected by consciousness. Since using conscious thought, still causes positive or negative feedback, this feedback would influence future use of subconsciousness, when generally similar circumstances occur.
So, instinct (feedback) directly affects subconsciousness and consciousness.
Subconsciousness (sub-sets of feedback) directly affects consciousness.
And consciousness (specific, circumstantial feedback) directly affects subconsciousness.
Subconsciousness (sub-sets of feedback) directly affects consciousness.
And consciousness (specific, circumstantial feedback) directly affects subconsciousness.
With daily fluctuating use of all 3 planes of brain activity, and each plane influencing the others, to significant degrees, the interactions between the changing methods of mind use, should prove to be quite complicated.
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