How is conscious control applied?
And, what are the potential maximum effects of its implementation?
For this explanation, Conscious Control can be understood as; the concept of using comprehension and awareness, to override emotion, subconscious mindsets, and instinctual drive to effectively control your mind.
For this explanation, Conscious Control can be understood as; the concept of using comprehension and awareness, to override emotion, subconscious mindsets, and instinctual drive to effectively control your mind.
By my hypothesis, conscious control can be applied simply by actively accessing memories of relevant and relative information. This seems common and easy enough, but applying this to a certain extent can be uncommon and difficult.
In normal circumstances subconscious mindsets and instinctual drive take over a lot of the steering wheel of the mind. Typically, in any simple situation, someone will just react quickly, based on mindsets which they are unaware of, at the time. A mindset builds from circumstances which are imprecisely resembling, occurring repetitively. If the similar circumstances occur enough with a similar result of positive or negative reinforcement, then a mindset is built to pursue or avoid those circumstances. To apply conscious control, and override the mindset, the individual needs to actively access memories of more precise information. Accessing more memories of accurate causes and effect of present factors, should no doubt result in a more accurate prediction of outcome of the situation. The more accurately that information in memories are accessed, the more probable the person (or AI, or alien, or intellectually advanced animal ;) is to be able to make a decision which is beneficial to them.
In normal circumstances subconscious mindsets and instinctual drive take over a lot of the steering wheel of the mind. Typically, in any simple situation, someone will just react quickly, based on mindsets which they are unaware of, at the time. A mindset builds from circumstances which are imprecisely resembling, occurring repetitively. If the similar circumstances occur enough with a similar result of positive or negative reinforcement, then a mindset is built to pursue or avoid those circumstances. To apply conscious control, and override the mindset, the individual needs to actively access memories of more precise information. Accessing more memories of accurate causes and effect of present factors, should no doubt result in a more accurate prediction of outcome of the situation. The more accurately that information in memories are accessed, the more probable the person (or AI, or alien, or intellectually advanced animal ;) is to be able to make a decision which is beneficial to them.
Just like mindsets, emotion or instinct will often drive an individual to take an action based on loose and inaccurate presets. Instinct is more like a genetic preset reaction to pursue or avoid basic scenarios, if no mindset has been built from recurring experiences which would outrank the instinct. Emotions are virtually preset reinforcement triggers. Emotions can be triggered by reacting to basic sensory input of instinctual drive or subconscious mindsets. Once the emotion is in effect, it is often an overreigning influence on actions and decisions. The emotion can then cause avoidance or pursuance of new circumstances, even though the new situation was not that which triggered the original emotion. But just as it can over mindsets, conscious control can override it all, by actively accessing information of relevant cause and effect concepts, involving the specific factors at hand.
The maximum extents of conscious control are an interesting prospect. Hypothetically, conscious comprehension should be capable of completely controlling the mind and body. The biology of current humans might not allow such function of the brain, at this time, but this is hypothetical! Active awareness of concepts regarding the most beneficial outcome, could allow someone to endure any amount of pain. Pain is basically an instinctual reaction to harm of the body. But in certain circumstances, if someone actively comprehends that the physical harm is beneficial for a certain result, they could override the urge to avoid the pain.
The maximum extents of conscious control are an interesting prospect. Hypothetically, conscious comprehension should be capable of completely controlling the mind and body. The biology of current humans might not allow such function of the brain, at this time, but this is hypothetical! Active awareness of concepts regarding the most beneficial outcome, could allow someone to endure any amount of pain. Pain is basically an instinctual reaction to harm of the body. But in certain circumstances, if someone actively comprehends that the physical harm is beneficial for a certain result, they could override the urge to avoid the pain.
A more practical and realistic application of conscious control could be resisting pursuance of a factor, which instinct or subconscious desire. For example, resisting addiction to a drug or unhealthy food. Active memory use should allow access to more accurate predictions of that which is beneficial to the individual. They can access memories of the concepts that the drug or unhealthy food will cause long term harm, then use that comprehension to force an alternate decision. Instinct or mindsets would urge them to pursue the drug or food, as they cause the effect of positive reinforcement in the brain. There is a lack of memory access of the relevant accurate information of the complex, long-term chain of effects of harm, which drugs or unhealthy food cause.
In the new age of complex scenarios, with a multitude of variables and information, the mind can be a complex mess of emotion, mindsets and instinct triggering each other. But there exists the potential to override the basic inaccurate information triggering, of an often less beneficial action. The active memory access of Conscious Control.
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