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> It's incredible to me how little insight our conscious selves have into what's going on in our subconscious. This is true, but it's also a feature, and not a
by munificent 3y ago
> It's incredible to me how little insight our conscious selves have into what's going on in our subconscious.
This is true, but it's also a feature, and not a bug. Conscious processing is extremely slow and resource intensive. Our subsconscious processing has millions of years of evolution behind it to generate good enough solutions to many problems much faster and burning fewer calories than doing the mental processing consciously and deliberately.
It's like running an emulator versus running code natively on the CPU. The latter will always beat the former.
- simonh 3y agoIt seems like consciousness has a major role in learning and memory formation. It’s very much about attention to what is important. The thing is it’s also attention to the experience of paying attention to things, and I suspect that’s really all conscious awareness is when it comes right down to it.