He's describing how it feels to be a good vim user, not how it works in reality. A great tennis player might say "I don't think about how to hit the ball, I jus

He's describing how it feels to be a good vim user, not how it works in reality. A great tennis player might say "I don't think about how to hit the ball, I just think about where I want it to go and it goes there", and that would be reasonable. Then you come in and say no that's gibberish, unless he has a spinal cord dongle hooked up to a robot that hits it for him, he has to be thinking about doing the actions, they're not automatic after all!