Conformity is the Trade-off of parallel Processing

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The core mechanism behind conformity is parallel processing.

Let's compare parallel processing to the preferred style of processing of the autistic person: Sequential processing.

Living life means living in a sea of information. There are a lot of ways you can process that information. You might take everything in at once (parallel processing) or you might look at one thing at a time (sequential processing).

The advantages of sequential processing are that it is more precise, it allows you to backtrack when you make an error and the Result of the process can be comprehended by looking at the steps that it took to reach the conclusion. However, this is really slow and ineffective when a lot of information is given at the same time.

The advantages of parallel processing are that it is fast and efficient. Also, it allows you to process multiple pieces of information at once. The downside is that the process is a black box and can not be comprehended. Neurons that fire in parallel do something, but it is hard to tell which patterns they see exactly.

In the human brain, the purpose of consciousness is the process of backtracking and comprehending the steps of reason. The purpose of the unconscious is to process everything at once. The unconscious has a lot more information accessible to it which is why it is so wise. However, it is unconscious because it must be a black box in order to do parallel processing. The definition of consciousness is that it can only ever process 7 pieces of information at once which is peanuts for the unconscious.

The way the information gained by parallel processing is made accessible to consciousness, is through the symbol. This is why symbolism, dreams and ordinary language have so much depth. Every word in every language has infinite depth and infinite meaning. Decoding this meaning and making it accessible to consciousness is what contemplation is. 

So what is conformity? Conformity is the inability to reason why you do what you do. This is because what they do is unconscious, or more precisely, comes from the unconscious. If you do the thing that the unconscious tell you to do, it is impossible for you to comprehend how you came to the conclusion to do that thing since parallel processing can't be comprehended. This is because comprehension itself is a sequential process.

Edited 3 hours ago by Cred