Subconscious Subjection

What are the outlining parameters of subconscious? and how does it function?

I’ve mentioned subconscious in a lot of posts, and described it to a relevant degree, in a few posts, such as; Equation of Action, and Update Pending: Subconsciousness. But I haven’t done a specific focus on its function, including aspects involved in that function. Being subjected to subconsciousness should be incredibly significant and relevant to this world, considering it seems to be a core influence of nearly all animal and human reactions.

My understanding of subconscious, is that it's basically a reaction of the mind, which the individual is not aware of the cause of, to avoid or pursue a situation, based on memory of resembling circumstances. It functions based on recording sensory input of circumstances, and linking positive or negative reinforcement with those recordings, which are saved in memory. As any animal or human goes through any experience, a lot of what they perceive through senses, is recorded as memories. Priority of memory space in the brain, for which senses are saved more accurately as memory, varies from animal to animal, depending on their particular effective use of senses.

But memory priority also fundamentally depends on the reinforcement which is linked by the specific experience. When I refer to reinforcement, I basically mean emotional feedback. I described in a previous post; The Notion of Emotion, more detail on how, what we consider “emotions” (relative to humans), seem to be an instinctual default reinforcement trigger in the brain. These feedback triggers develop slightly, over generations of any particular species, based on what is most effective for that species survival and reproduction. The reinforcement trigger then reacts by default, to a range of circumstances, to cause the individual to avoid or pursue those scenarios, which are typically harmful or helpful (respectfully).

When any animal encounters an experience with any degree of reinforcement, the memory of that experience is prioritized based on the severity degree of the reinforcement. For eg, if a deer has the experience of going near a particular pond, and being chased by a wolf, that deer may receive fear as severe negative reinforcement. The sensory input of the sight of the pond may be recorded with high priority for memory space in the brain, and linked with the negative reinforcement. The deer would then avoid those resembling circumstances of going near that pond, in the future (unless higher priority reinforcement, of perhaps being extremely thirsty, overrides). This could hypothetically benefit the deer, by avoiding that area, where there’s a high probability of wolf chasing them again.

This function applies regularly to humans as well. Humans go through many experiences throughout each day, using subconscious reinforcement. 1 significant difference in humans, is that we regularly have the ability to overpower subconscious influence, using “conscious” awareness. My understanding is that conscious awareness allows the person to access additional memories relative to the factors within the circumstances. Accessing more details of memories takes more time, but generally causes a more accurate reaction, based on analysing more specific factors (and therein the reinforcement linked with those memories of factors) involved in the circumstances.

But any time in which a person has a lack of attent (and conscious memory access), they default to subconscious reaction. This occurs frequently and regularly throughout any common day, when a person is performing repetitive or simple tasks which don't provoke conscious thought. Dreams are likely another common state of subconsciousness, where the mind is inattentively accessing memories of sensory input, and receiving linked reinforcement, in a cycle. Being drunk or sedated would be another common state, where proficient comprehension of factors, is reduced.

Subconscious reaction seems to be a useful function for most animals to avoid or pursue harmful or helpful scenarios. Humans seem to have developed a method of memory access, which is often more effective for situations involving complex circumstances, but still make use of subconscious reaction regularly. Considering it seems to be a core, and common influence on the reactions of virtually every animal and person, it should be significantly useful to keep in mind, the function of the concept of, Subconscious Subjection.