RichardKennaway comments on Would Your Real Preferences Please Stand Up? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: huono_ekonomi 10 August 2009 09:06:41AM 0 points [-]

Few examples where "unconscious" beats "conscious" hands down are dancing and driving a car.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 10 August 2009 10:28:59AM *  1 point [-]

Few examples where "unconscious" beats "conscious" hands down are dancing and driving a car.

What is "unconscious" about either of those?

ETA: Both of them are physical and mental skills, deliberately learned. In this, they do not differ from learning yoga postures, learning a musical instrument, or learning any sport.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 10 August 2009 09:32:17PM 1 point [-]

You get better at yoga postures, playing a musical instrument, and playing sports when you do those things enough that the bits you commonly do over and over are picked up on by your subconscious so your conscious doesn't have to worry about them anymore. That's my guess.