Don't want to sound harsh, but have you really always thought like that, or just now that you read the article? I am just asking because such things occur to me

Don't want to sound harsh, but have you really always thought like that, or just now that you read the article? I am just asking because such things occur to me often: I read something I always had a vague idea about, then read it in good wordings and suddenly I'm like 'oh yeah, I've always known that'. While I obviously haven't. Think carefully before giving an answer, the brain is king into tricking 'you' into believing things. it feels like my hand somehow knows what I'm searching for, and can recognize it much better than I can Imo that is just your brain having learnt your habits in such a way that you now don't actively have to think about it anymore. The sensory inputs of your hand still go to your brain, and are processed there into commands to your hand's muscles. Subconscious or not, sensory input locally 'pre'processed or not, your hand is not locally processing that complete cycle so it doesn't 'know' anything nor is it working standalone.