Subconscious mind

As explained in Collaborative Software Design: How to facilitate domain modeling decisions

The level of mental processes that are inaccessible to consciousness but influence judgments, feelings, and behavior.

The subconscious mind contains mental processes inaccessible to consciousness that still influence judgments, feelings, and behavior. In collaborative modeling, it can hold anxiety, conflict, frustration, and other group tensions that remain hidden until surfaced. section 4.3.1

Making group shadows visible

During a collaborative modeling session, unresolved conflict may grow beneath visible discussion. A facilitator can “turn on the flashlight” by surfacing these shadows, making them discussable and manageable rather than allowing them to become larger problems. section 4.3.1

Distinguish the three levels of mental processing:

• Conscious processes are observable and available for rational reflection. section 4.3.1
• Preconscious material becomes accessible through association, such as memories triggered by music or familiar designs. section 4.3.1
• Subconscious processes remain inaccessible directly but affect judgments, feelings, behavior, anxiety, and conflict. section 4.3.1

Figure 4.6 Iceberg model that describes three levels of the mind: conscious, preconscious, and unconscious

Use the iceberg model to visualize conscious, preconscious, and subconscious layers, including the larger hidden layer beneath observable behavior. section 4.3.1

How Collaborative Software Design: How to facilitate domain modeling decisions covers it

How deep it goes

Defines three mental levels and connects the hidden level to facilitation, but does not develop a detailed psychological mechanism.

Examples

Uses an iceberg model, triggered memories, familiar architecture designs, and hidden group conflict as examples.

What it assumes

Teaches conscious, preconscious, and subconscious distinctions from basic definitions, assuming participation in collaborative modeling sessions.

What you can do after

Apply facilitation to make hidden tensions visible and manageable during collaborative modeling sessions.

How it connects

Connects subconscious processes with conscious mind, preconscious mind, facilitation, conflict, anxiety, and collaborative modeling.

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Related concepts

• iceberg modelpart of · A model of the mind that represents conscious, preconscious, and unconscious mental activity as levels with differing visibility and accessibility.
• biasproduces · Bias is a systematic deviation or tendency in data, measurements, estimates, judgments, or outputs that skews them relative to a relevant target or impartial baseline.
• consciousnesscontrasts with · Consciousness is the state or capacity of having subjective awareness or experience.
• machine modelcontrasts with · A machine model is an abstract representation of a computer’s relevant components, stored information, operations, and execution characteristics.
• degree of beliefuses · A degree of belief is the strength of credence or evidential support assigned to a proposition or possible outcome.
• preconscious mindcontrasts with · The level of mental content that is not immediately conscious but can be accessed through association or recollection.

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