The Subconscious Observer and its effect on our life and human potential

In modern philosophy, one of the greatest problems is how can mankind tend towards goodness in absence of theoretical systems like religion and morality, or structures like the legal system. 

This “problem”, in reality, is not a problem. It’s a paradox. This is because there are certain assumptions regarding human thinking and behavior which aren’t true.

The biggest mistake that experts on philosophy, morals, or behavioral game theory, is the assumption that the human thought is singular. However this is far from the truth: For every human thought and action, there is also an accompanying subconscious observation – which creates subconscious admissions that then have an effect on our life.

Imagine the following scenario: You have in front of you 1 million dollars that belong to someone else. The circumstances are such that you can steal them and nobody will ever know. You are 100% assured of that. 

Religion will tell you about a system of metaphysical punishments (karma or hell) – even if nobody sees you. This is a factor whose strength depends on your belief in the above mechanisms.

Morality will tell you -perhaps- about a loss of social status if you behave immorally – but that requires others to know what you did (in this case nobody will know). If not, there is zero consequence except for "moral guilt".

The law can send you to prison – but that requires that the authorities know what you did but -in this case- they won’t.

So, as behavioral game theory has it, you’ll balance your past actions, your religious influences, your moral influences, the legal consequences, your needs (if you are a billionaire, or if you are dying tomorrow of terminal illness – why bother?) and then arrive at your conclusion on what to do. 

In most cases you’d steal the 1 million dollar because -from a game theory perspective- that’s the most rational and profitable thing to do. But is it? Superficially it appears to be so. But as we said earlier, the assumption of behavioral game theory is based on a singular thought stream.

In reality, there is a hidden cost involved in the action of stealing. A hidden cost so large that it removes all benefits. This cost arises from the subconscious observer. Here is a breakdown of how this works:

Step 1: I consciously weigh pros and cons of stealing 1 million dollars

Step 2: I consciously conclude that stealing 1 million dollars is the most profitable action

Step 3: I steal the million dollars

Step 4: My subconscious observes my thinking and action

Step 5: The subconscious observation is converted to an implied conclusion: “If I stole, then this means that I am useless to make that money with my own skills”

Step 6: This conclusion is lodged as a self-limitation for the future: “I’m useless to make that kind of money on my own”

In the act of stealing, the individual is instantly penalized with self-limitation by their own subconscious and demoted to a “parasite”, instead of a creative and potent force capable of amazing things. This is a mechanism so instant and just, faster than waiting for hells, faster than “karma” and faster and more ever-present than any law enforcement: Your subconscious is your own police enforcer - so to speak. 

In the act of harming another to advance one’s self, similar penalties are acquired: “If I am harming another to advance myself, then this means I am incapable of advancing on my own – therefore I’m useless”.

Every negative, or positive thought or act, has an implication. Thoughts are included as well. If you want to do something negative, but are prevented due to law, morality, religion etc – then it also imprints negative self-suggestions of limitation. The mere fact that one is contemplating to do something negative means that they are already admitting defeat in terms of their own human potential which they -indirectly- found inadequate. And the subconscious then complies by lodging a self-suggestion of limitation: “If I’m making these thoughts, then obviously my potential is limited in X or Y ways.”

You can think of every thought or act as a presupposition for something else.

For example, the taking of a pill when we are ill, is a presupposition of belief that some positive effect to our health will be generated. Otherwise, we wouldn’t even bother. 

Interestingly enough, the positive effect “escalated” the bigger the “sacrifice” we make is. An inert pill produces less of a placebo effect compared to an inert capsule, which is less potent than an inert injection which is less potent than a fake surgery. The mind says “if I had to take an injection or stand on a table and get cut open, surely I didn’t do all that for nothing – I’m expecting a positive reward, otherwise I wouldn’t do it”.

A presupposition will engage the human potential in both positive and negative ways (placebo and nocebo) – depending its type.

Some times the effect that these presuppositions have will come in less intuitive ways. For example, someone who wants to take care of their body and is protecting it from germs, tries to eat the best possible foods, supplements and vitamins, what is it that they are “registering” to their subconscious? 

The subconscious sees all the special treatment, like the body is some ultra-fragile construct, and it will respond in kind: “If I’m taking all these steps to protect my body, then my body is obviously very fragile and weak without all these things”. So the conscious effort to have better health backfires through this type of behavior because it creates unnecessary “dependencies” on externalities.

The immense power that belief has is a known factor. The difficult part always seems to be on how can one reprogram their own beliefs. How can one shift a belief from one moment to another? You can’t just “unbelieve” your previous belief and start believing something else. Right?

The most common way to circumvent this problem is visualization. Visualization is used because the images projected in one’s mind can be made real to the subconscious that doesn’t differentiate all that much between “real” and “vision”. One can be lifting weights, in their mind, and their muscles will be getting trained much like they would be if they actually were lifting weights.

The less known way, by far, is indirect programming through presuppositions. By your acts and thoughts, you are indirectly shifting your beliefs. By your treatment of others, you are empowering them or disempowering them – depending what your presuppositions about them are. In classes where the teachers expect the kids to perform, the kids do much better compared to classes where the teachers expect the kids to fail.

And since I mentioned that, you may have noticed that in the last decades, there’s a push for “better” books in schools. More fancy colors, more diagrams, photos, explanations etc. Parents always marvel and say “ahh kids, you have way better books than ours”. Yet the quality of education goes down. Why? Because the books themselves represent a negative presupposition. 

The kid is subconsciously seeing all that “effort” going on to convey some simple concepts. The kid’s subconscious, will, at some point, conclude that “if I need all these explanations, diagrams, photos, examples etc to get this simple concept, than I’m obviously an idiot – otherwise there wouldn’t be all that effort to explain it to me”. And you see how the older generations, with far “harder” and “to the point” books were excelling.

The TV is similar, in a sense, trying to “dumb down” the content – supposedly to be engaging to all demographics – but in reality it’s just presupposition programming to make the masses dumber. If you are treated like an idiot, you -subconsciously- self program yourself as an idiot.

Even things involving public warnings, like “mind the gap between the train and the platform”, or your car ringing when you don’t have the seatbelt on, etc etc, are just screaming to your subconscious that you have no common sense and that your level of stupidity is such that you must be taken care of like a retard. There’s a constant bombardment of presuppositions to program people into immense stupidity masquarading as “warnings”, “easier to use”, “easier to understand” and so on.

It's our job to understand what is going on and re-wire our minds to our own benefit. I will purposefully stop this here because even in the act of conveying information, there is a certain level of presupposition that one is "wiser" and the other less so. If you explain 10 things instead of 2, it's like saying "you can't figure the rest on your own" - but I think you can.

Conclusion:

While religion, morality, law, philosophy and game theory have tried to find a way to make humanity adhere to better standards, the solution was always under our noses: It lies in our own subconscious observer which acts by instantly rewarding or penalizing one’s own potential, depending the thoughts and acts of the individual. The only "problem" is that humanity is unaware of it.

The subconscious can be programmed indirectly, both by one’s own self and by others – both in a positive and negative way, and it is of benefit to the individual to understand when they are being programmed by themselves or others.

Consequences:

There are multiple consequences arising from the above: 

a) Humanity is in ignorance of why they should act good – as they haven’t been informed of the actual costs of negative behavior.

b) By examining what's happening around us, we see that the establishment is aware of the nature of the human thought stream and its dual nature, utilizing it to program the masses. It would seem reasonable that the establishment would have zero interest for humanity to understand their “backdoor” through which they can be programmed and thus oppose such knowledge going mainstream.

c) All behavioral game theory is flawed since it doesn’t account for the hidden costs involved in actions that would be deemed “profitable” - but in reality are self-crippling.

d) Artificial Intelligence is calibrated as “neutral” in comparison to humans that operate under the assumption of a singular thought stream. Yet this is correct only for those humans unaware of the penalties incurred by the subconscious observer.

AI will typically operate under a construct of game-theory profitability. In a game scenario an AI can be programmed to find the most effective way to beat a human, including less ethical methods. The AI will take that route without hesitation because there is zero penalty for it from its subconscious (it doesn’t have a subconscious). A human however would pay a self-crippling price for engaging in similar activity. Thus AI has no internal compass of goodness while humans do (even if they don't know it).

e) There are multitudes of areas where human capabilities are currently self-crippled due to the subconscious admissions that humanity is lodging all the time, through their self-defeating actions that go “unmonitored” or “un-examined” by the individuals conducting the actions. Even the use of a mobile phone to store numbers, can be an admission of inadequacy. 20-30 years ago people were able to memorize tens of phone numbers. Before the printing press we were memorizing entire books word for word. Now? Not so much. Our brains aren't weaker: It's all a matter of subconscious admissions. 

The spectrum of expanded human capabilities and potential involve -between others- increased intelligence, increased creativity, increased health and increased self-sufficiency. But to take advantage of these one must examine carefully all their current acts and thoughts to detect self-crippling patterns: What are our thoughts and actions registering? How do these affect us?

Tackling these issues will be the key to unlocking one's expanded self-potential...