It's a funny bit of musefulness, but again I disagree on terms. The subconcious layer of my mind does not merely generate plausibilities. That is part of it, ye

It's a funny bit of musefulness, but again I disagree on terms. The subconcious layer of my mind does not merely generate plausibilities. That is part of it, yes, especially at the bounds of my senses colours will shade in that aren't there or shapes will look like people or characters. This is especially prevelent when I'm learning something new. For example, I'm learning how to read and write Traditional Chinese right now and when I move my eyes fast symbols will briefly look like Chinese ones that I know, even if they're actually Japanese characters that closely resemble them. But the subconcious also handles two other major functions that are not involved in plausibility generation. 1. Prediction. Not just "predict something plausible" but "predict the time down to the second" or "predict what people are about to say on this podcast I'm listening to" and when it gets it uncannily right or surprisingly wrong it generates laughter of some kind. 2. Tacit learning. The type you only get by bathing in a topic for a good long time so that connections can form that are below a linguistic layer and to surface them requires abstract philosophical pondering after the fact. There are other functions (snap judgements, feeling generation to guide strategic choices, creativity[0], and um, "connection"[1]) but those three together I would say comprise the bulk of the subconcious experience from my perspective. [0] Some disagree that this subconcious. All I can say is that they're 100% wrong for me. [1] Something I wish I had a word for but it's essentially the feeling and thinking generated by joining yourself with a piece of technology like a bike or a computer or a car. Its as if ones exoskeleton is donned and the neural pathways update to take it on.