Such as,
* Riding a bike
* Playing a muscial instrument
* Touch typing on a computer keyboard
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In: Biology
You ARE thinking, it’s just not conscious thinking. Your conscious experience isn’t the only kind of thoughts that exist. The subconscious brain isn’t at all like what Freud said, but it does exist and it processes information, too.
So basically, mastery of those kind of skills is when you can let your automated, non conscious mind do most of the work. It’s still making decisions based in inputs and directing actions, you just aren’t totally aware of all that.
The reason we aren’t conscious of it, probably harder to explain. My guess would be that it’s related to the evolution of consciousness. Our conscious experience, as humans, is very tied to complex tasks and complex social environments. So it never developed to be aware of things like riding a bike. And that makes some sense because bike riding is about balance and balance is controlled by much more “ancient” systems in the brain.
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