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I'm skeptical. For example, in my bedroom, I have 2 cabinets. A while ago, I moved my socks and underpants from one cabinet to the other. Afterwards, I kept goi

• xj9 12y ago
  The brain doesn't rely on computation for intelligence, rather, storing and identifying patterns. When you change something that is part of a habit, you have to wait for your brain to rewire itself with the new behavior before it becomes second nature.
• jerf 12y ago
  People learn about this stuff, and can often end up over-extrapolating it. For every story of it doing something astonishing and powerful, an observant person can find it doing something blitheringly stupid when examined by the cold light of reason. It may be true that your subconscious is more powerful than naive ideas would lead you to believe, but flipping to the opposite idea that it must be brilliant and the conscious mind extraneous or unimportant is merely the complementary naive idea. The conscious mind may be riding the elephant, but the rider still exerts a lot of important influence over the elephant.