Backspace Subconscious

In what ways, and why does the subconscious influence the conscious mind to access incorrect information? 

Situations such as cognitive dissonance, the placebo effect, and biases, seem to involve the subconscious mind influencing the conscious mind to be incorrect, at accurate analysis. Why does this happen?

In my last post; Sub Ctrl Alt Conscious, I hypothesized how the subconscious seems to generally be the process which steers the direction of initial conscious thought. The process of subconscious seems to be continuously active while someone is awake, and works faster than conscious comprehension, so is likely the 1st to react, in order to guide direction for further conscious thought. This could explain how the conscious mind seems to be caused to inaccurately analyse information, at times. 

Cognitive dissonance is when someone tries to justify their actions, by explaining the reasons why they did something, while truly believing the reasons, despite the reasons being incorrect. When the subconscious mind is accessing memories of the actions which an individual has taken, and a driving instinct is for them to feel positive about that action, perhaps the subconscious is receiving feedback to prioritize further conscious neural access, in the direction of memories of plausible justifiable reasons for taking that action. When someone is correct about something, they receive positive feedback for being correct. This may be the driving cause for the direction of being correct, even when the person actually is not.

These reasons would have an ease of neural connection, because of previous conscious comprehension of cause and effect and interaction of the factors at hand. As I further explained in the previous to last post; Subconscious Conscious-Memory Access, conscious thought in the past, seems to reinforce neural pathways to comprehendable connections between factors in memory. This, then influences subconscious thought to use those same pathways. There seems to be a cycle of influence, since the subconscious then influences direction of conscious thought.

This cycle may be relevant to the placebo and nocebo effect. A placebo is basically the mind causing positive effects because it mistakenly believes that something exterior to the mind is causing those effects. A Nocebo is basically negative effects. If someone is consciously aware of reasons for which they believe something should cause effects for them, this could create reinforcement for neural pathways between the factor which they believe should cause effects, and the effects they believe should be caused. Then the subconscious will automatically cause neural connections to the effects which the person is expecting. Whether placebo or nocebo, the effects which occur, are caused by the mind, evidently, so once effective neural pathways have been made to those effects, the mind seems to then cause those effects (by whatever means). If you then ask the person what caused the effects, they will consciously answer incorrectly, that the exterior factor caused it, rather than their mind. Mistaken beliefs of the conscious mind, causes the subconscious to cause the effects.

Biases may be more simply caused by the inaccuracy of the subconscious. Since the subconscious is influenced by previous experiences, and the individual is unaware of the influences (as further explained in a post from early this year; Subconscious Subjection), a bias seems to be basically this influence in itself. When someone thinks that 1 option is the best, despite alternate rational reasons, this is likely the subconscious directing their conscious mind to that option because their previous experiences with that option, received enough positive feedback. If the bias is that an option is worse, then it is likely caused by previous negative subconscious feedback for that option. Since the subconscious is influenced to have a particular preference or dispreference, this then directs conscious decision making to prioritize that option. This may even lead to cognitive dissonance, where the person may then describe reasons for their preference, which are not the actual reasons. Since a bias is caused by the subconscious, the person is usually unaware of it, so their conscious mind then finds connections to reasons for the bias.

It’s a bit scary, the way the subconscious can incorrectly influence the conscious mind. It can cause;

-Cognitive dissonance, by incorrectly remembering reasons to justify an action 

-Placebo or nocebo, which can be helpful in cases of placebo, but the subconscious is still promoting incorrect reasoning

-Or Biases, of the mind unawarefully using subconscious influence of past experiences

But, being aware of these inaccurate influences of the subconscious, and how they function, can likely allow room for more effective conscious control, with the option to hit Backspace on your Subconscious.