What Happened to the Erase Button?

OK. Sub-conscious self can record and it can play back. 


What if sub-conscious self records a bad solution to a "Now" challenge? 


So, imagine you're 5 years old and you learn a response that helped you survive you're bully big brother. A lot of folks get to adulthood without improving their available choices to respond to all situations. When you get poked in “that way,” you will respond in the same way you did when you were five when your brother poked you. That is, if you have not learned a better way.

Only a small fraction of those non-conscious recorded qualities become conscious accessible memories.


This is an active process, as we’ve explored in several earlier posts. This is a skill, a doing, a verb. This skill can be practiced and perform better and better over time. I’m talking about any creative action.

Another skill to consider at this point is mimicry. The capability to use a memory to relive aspects of an originating experience, turning that memory into a whole new continuum of experience.For example, the second night of a play. It is the same play; however, it is a whole new experience. That’s what a skill is, to be able to re-enact. It may seem silly to state something that seems so very obvious. As we look at developmental continuums, these simple questions become quite profound.

Every time you relive a memory, in your mind’s eye (I) or in a re-enactment, the artificial construct that is that memory tree, is reinforced as being the true action held in that memory. The fact is; it is an artificial construct, and in the same way it was the first time you lived the event.

Even if everything in the individual’s conscious memory is accurate and true, it is only a small fraction of information about the event. There is your non-conscious 50,000,000 bits/sec. processor at work, plus any other witness to the same event, Conscious, Non-conscious, Human or Mechanical. Then there are qualities of the event that we don’t have the sensory or mental capacity yet to perceive. We use tools to help see waves to which our eyes are not yet sensitive. Maybe we are sensitive to such waves, but are just not conscious of that sensitivity. Maybe we just haven't learned that wave yet.

Some folks go to work and perform the same function, the same array of motor reflex patterns every day. “Would you like fries with that hamburger?” the server asks day after day, customer after customer.

Such jobs have short learning curves and become virtually automatic after a short period. However, fry cook or surgeon, it is about the act of. We don’t reconstruct from scratch, we have the ability to re-enact the same pathways amending only what is needed to appropriately respond to the subtle changes in context. Michael Phelps swims the same stroke from pool to pool, competition to competition. He adjusts for the different competitors and pool conditions. It is his endless practice that instructs intent, not free will. Free will comes into play in practicing for the challenges of life. If you’re not prepared for life when it happens, it’s just too late.

The order in which we process information is a critical question to the one studying the act of... I have mentioned the visual illusion in previous posts. 
(See post 11/17/2011) The very structure of determining here/now is a flexible, non-conscious and learned behavior. If something new is to be seen, one must learn how to see it. These skills are learned, from conception through early childhood, with enormous efficiency. We continue learning obviously, but at a much different rate and process. 

Imagine the brain is the hardware and the mind is the software. The longer the software runs, the more the running program affects the functions of said software.

You say, so what. If I get a bad “program” just delete it. The problem is; there is no delete button, no erase button. 


This massive processor has this safety device built-in. The designer must have known that if that button were installed, we would not be able to leave it alone or would misuse it, badly.  Once non-conscious self finds a solution to a problem, even if it’s a really bad solution, it will keep it until it has a perceived a “better” solution to put in its place.

 

For years teaching the creative process, I've used the saying:

“There is no right or wrong in the creative process.

Only what doesn’t work,

what works and then what works better.”

The mind/brain complex seems to have this same protocol. A program that is not particularly effective or not socially appropriate can become increasingly difficult to alter as time passes. The pathway becomes ingrained with repeated use. With no erase button, what does one do?

Two elements are required to effect change in how one chooses behavior:

     1. Train in a “better” solution.

     2. Veto the “negative” pathway when it’s initiated and don’t veto the 

        “better” solution.

Sounds simple enough, huh? The effects of such training occur in non-conscious self. So, you won’t know if it worked until after it happened.

Cool, huh!

At every level that life shows itself to our consciousness, it chooses the action that facilitates the continuation of life. Life selects the option that resists decay into disorder, entropy and finally equilibrium.

It is only when it comes to the systems of human imagination, deep in the structure of the systematic illusion, that this rule comes apart. Our imagination, our consciousness alone has veto.