Equation of Action

What causes someone to take action?

For someone to take a simple action, it takes a simple trigger and a simple reaction. Most simple actions are quick instinctual reactions, which take little to no comprehension, understanding or consciousness. Considering instincts as preset triggers designed to stay alive and reproduce, most of these simple actions dont require memory access involved with subconscious reaction or conscious comprehension and decision making. A simple instinctual trigger might be eating as a reaction to hunger, taking a crap as a reaction to food being processed, breathing as a reaction to the body needing oxygen, pulling your hand away from a flame as a reaction to pain, running away as a reaction to something startling, etc.

When there is more complex circumstances involved, the cause of trigger in the mind, is more complex and based on more complex influences of memory. The reaction is subconscious, if not consciously decided upon, and if influenced by memories, rather than simple instincual reaction. Subconscious reaction will overpower simple instinct, since it uses memories relative to the circumstances at hand, and proves to be more accurate at predicting the most beneficial reaction. So the variables for the action in a lot of circumstances, includes memories of past situations with similar factors which are in the current circumstances. For eg. if the current circumstances are taking an action of choosing either a red candy or blue candy, the relative memories would be eating blue candies and red candies. If red candies have had more positive influence on memories of past circumstances, this will cause the person to choose red (assuming the decisions is not made based on conscious analysing of the circumstances). Whereas if they have memories of getting sick from eating a red candy, the influence will be negative, and they will choose the blue candy instead.

If the cause of action is even more complex, it might be conscious decision. Instead of the previous scenario of acting based on the influence of basic memories resembling the current circumstances, the mind accesses a much more complex array of memories. Here, the variables involved in the cause of action, include memories saved of the concepts of various aspects of the circumstances. Not only does the memory access previous similar scenarios with an influencing positive or negative result, but the memory also accesses more specific aspects of the circumstances, and the previous results of each specific aspect. The memory access can continue to make more connections, and continue analysing more memories of an aspect, and analyse the probable cause of each occurance of each aspect. With the prolonged and continued access to various connection between aspects which are relative to the current circumstances, a more accurate result will cause the action to more likely be beneficial.

For eg, the action is to go to work, or not. They might subconsciously access memories of past occurrences where they went to work, and had a negative influence because they disliked the work. But by conscious analysis of memories, they would then access memories of the conceptual effects of going to work, and the connection that work causes a paycheque, and the memory connection of the concept that a paycheque causes the ability to buy food, and that food is necessary for the future. Through these memories of concepts, the person might result in a more accurate action of positive toward going to work.

For any action involving complex enough circumstances, the cause of action can be general basic memories, resembling the current circumstances, causing a positive or negative influence for one action or another, in the case of subconscious reaction. But if conscious decision is implemented, memories of specific aspects of the circumstances (including concepts of cause and effect) are accessed, until an accurate prediction of most beneficial action is determined, by analysis.