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   The common wisdom about the human brain is we only use some percentage of it's capability and rest sits idle.  I'm not so sure that's factual.

   Sure, the conscious part of the mind uses some fraction of the brains capacity.

   But the unconscious part of the mind uses the rest:

• Continually and steadily.
• Evaluating the facts, answers, and truths that it knows to identify and expand knowledge.
• Modeling and projecting to find the right path or make adjustments.

   What the unconscious part of the mind doesn't do:

• Does not typically deal with metaphors, abstractions, or symbolism.
• Those must first be resolved by the conscious part of the mind (does anyone notice that shift in awareness?)

   The unconscious part of the mind does those things according to the mind's will.  That sounds backwards, but it isn't.   A better way of saying that is the mind wills it, the unconscious carries it out, and we're unaware of that occurring.

   Here's a few things you probably already know:

• A mind that values honesty and truth will inevitably find that path (even when path appears backwards).
• A mind that values people and friends will find a path surrounded by them.
• A mind that values things will find a path to more than they can ever use.
• A mind that values self over anything else will find more than enough of themselves to last a lifetime.

   How is that so straightforwardly possible?

   It's a brute force kind of thing and massively in parallel.  Think of it as working along the breadth of the mind's abilities instead of the depth.  We only know it's occurring through inference because of the results we receive with so little input.

   Would you be surprised if I claimed there's no such thing as intuition?

   It only takes a single vague awareness of something for the unconscious part of the mind to identify different domains of knowledge worth connecting.

   It's a hallmark of hypnosis - frame shifting - that allows the unconscious part of the mind to translate between domains to generate new knowledge from existing knowledge.

   Another way of saying that would be "looking for answers".

   Throw in as much basic research as needed...

   And we're still less than halfway to building a more mind like artificial intelligence.