Monday 24 August 2020

Generalized Subconscious Communication

How is communication incorporated into society and individuals, when used with a more vague and generalized degree of accuracy?


The essence of spirituality is flowing with beauty in freeing our elegance. How accurately was that understood? It sounds fancy, and might make people feel good, but there is likely not a significant degree of accuracy of specific meaning. When someone communicates to a vague degree, without accuracy of intended meaning, this causes a more varying scope of potential interpretation by others. Using generalized terms which are lacking in specific mutual understanding of meaning, causes communication on a more subconscious level.

By subconscious, I mean the mind functioning without the individuals awareness or knowledge of the specific thoughts or memories being accessed. I further described my understanding of the subconscious in a post from 15 months ago; Subconscious Subjection. If terms and description within communication are to a generalized degree, it seems likely that not only the person speaking is using a mind function which is closer to subconscious (than more accurate description would be), but also the person receiving the communication would be interpreting it on a more subconscious level. Both individuals would be accessing the generalized words used, more subconsciously, without accurate understanding of what the words mean. 


Subconscious communication isn't necessarily fundamentally bad, but inaccuracy allows a greater chance for error. With the communicator accessing less distinct understanding of the meaning of words, and less accurate memories connected with those words, it allows a greater chance to use words which are unintended. Also, the individual receiving the communication has less accurate factors to determine the communicator's intended meaning, even if they tried to use more definitive thought processes. If the 1 receiving, simply takes it as it is, they can subconsciously interpret a generalized meaning which has a greater chance of being different from what was intended. 


Along with subconscious access of words, comes the mind's neurochemical positive or negative reinforcement, connected with the words or general ideas, without awareness of the connection of that reinforcement. I explained more of what I mean by this type of reinforcement, in a post from 7 months ago; Reinforcement Mechanisms. Since this type of communication uses more subconscious reinforcement, this can cause a cycle of repeated incorrect reinforcement about a generalized idea. 


Consider my example in the 2nd sentence of this post. That sentence could cause positive feedback because some of the specific words are usually connected with positive feedback, but the overall idea has no accurate intended meaning by the communicator (me). If an idealism lacks accurate distinction of communication of meaning, it can be incorrectly linked with subconscious positive reinforcement. This can be as a result of inaccurate understanding of cause and effect, allowing positivity to be connected to a factor by correlation rather than causation. Basically, a generalized idea can make someone feel good because a certain aspect of that idea gives positive reinforcement, despite the remainder of factors of the overall idea, lacking correct cause and effect. It can become a cycle since the more that the generalized idea is communicated without accurate understanding, the more subconscious positive reinforcement is received (from the communicator or receiver) as a connection with the idea. If many people with the same type of subconscious thinking and communication begin to communicate more and more often with each other, they can cause an increase of growth of an inaccurate reinforcement cycle. 


More vague forms of communication dont seem to fundamentally cause problems, but allow a much higher chance for error, caused by miscommunication and misunderstanding of meaning. In a more simple world, such as the animal kingdom (where this type of mind function likely comes from), this may cause few problems, but in our complex world of accurate information, technology, and society, perhaps improvements can be made with a move towards accuracy, and away from; Generalized Subconscious Communication. 


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