Can your subconscious be conditioned to be conscious?
By definition, you cannot be conscious while subconscious, since subconscious specifically excludes being conscious. But, as I discovered in a post from last month; Mind Driver, it seems your subconscious can react 1stly, to steer the direction of conscious thought. Does this mean your subconscious can be conditioned to regularly continue to use the function of conscious thought, rather than a more basic subconscious reaction?
It seems plausible to condition your subconscious to react in certain ways, as I further explained in a post from 2.5 yrs ago; Conscious Conditioning. But considering the difference in physical function during the process of subconscious, compared to conscious, it seems initially unclear whether you can be subconsciously conditioned to be conscious. Normal conditioning of the subconscious, causes a basic reaction to sensory stimulation, based on previous positive or negative reinforcement saved in memory (more detail in; Subconscious Subjection).
So normally, the process for reaction of subconscious conditioning would be, sensory stimulation triggers an emotion, based on previous experiences. That emotion then causes the individual to react physically, and typically pursue or avoid the scenario. When reacting subconsciously, an emotion caused by previous positive or negative reinforcement, usually seems to drive a physical reaction. This is different than causing a further memory mechanism, in the mind, such as conscious awareness.
But, of course sometimes humans do react with the further memory mechanism of conscious thought. Perhaps the question is whether this occurring, is affected by the subconscious, or whether the further memory mechanism occurs based only on physical infrastructure of the brain?
It seems obvious that infrastructure of the brain is required for conscious thought, assuming it occurs based on an explainable mechanism, but which factors cause that conscious mechanism to occur, should be relevant. It seems likely that amount of activation of neurons, would be a required factor to cause the conscious mechanism, since being more awake, seems to cause more conscious awareness and thought. If the amount of activity of neurons was the only factor which causes conscious thought in a person who already has the infrastructure, then it seems like a subconscious mechanism, could typically only increase neural activity, if it triggered a chemical (such as adrenaline), which then in turn triggered more neural activity. This likely does occur on occasion, but seems unlikely to be a method for conditioning your subconscious to trigger conscious thought, in common, repeated, circumstances.
It seems obvious that infrastructure of the brain is required for conscious thought, assuming it occurs based on an explainable mechanism, but which factors cause that conscious mechanism to occur, should be relevant. It seems likely that amount of activation of neurons, would be a required factor to cause the conscious mechanism, since being more awake, seems to cause more conscious awareness and thought. If the amount of activity of neurons was the only factor which causes conscious thought in a person who already has the infrastructure, then it seems like a subconscious mechanism, could typically only increase neural activity, if it triggered a chemical (such as adrenaline), which then in turn triggered more neural activity. This likely does occur on occasion, but seems unlikely to be a method for conditioning your subconscious to trigger conscious thought, in common, repeated, circumstances.
Other than your subconscious using positive or negative reinforcement of past experiences, it also utilizes repetition of common neural pathways. The more a pathway is used, the easier it is for your subconscious to access. Perhaps this could be an element involved in the potential to condition your subconscious to trigger conscious thought. If you repeatedly use neural pathways which lead to neural combinations required to be conscious of a factor, then it seems plausible that your subconscious would be more likely to access that same combination. Even without increasing neural activity (such as being more awake), it might be possible to subconsciously (with less neural activity) trigger access of conscious neural combos.
Even in a state of subconsciousness (eg, drunk, dreaming, tired) it seems you can be conditioned by repetition, to have conscious thoughts. By definition, once you access the conscious combo, you would no longer be subconscious, but after the conscious thought subsides, and you go back to being subconscious (in your state of mind), you should be more likely to again access conscious thoughts (even if fewer than when more awake), if you are conditioned so.
It would still be your subconscious which triggered the conscious thought, because of the repetition of previous conscious thought, rather than usual increase of neural activity being the cause. This seems it would only be effective for factors which you’ve been conscious of repeatedly in the past. Perhaps saving a repeated neural combo connection in memory, to the concept itself, of being conscious, could be another question, in whether subconsciously triggering that concept, could allow you to then further apply being conscious; to new factors?
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