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

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Comment author: taryneast 26 July 2011 03:55:43PM 0 points [-]

I personally prefer the term "subconscious" for these situations. It gives the impression that a subconscious process is one that is right there, swimming beneath the surface - leaving it able to be accessed by the conscious mind with a greater or lesser degree of ease... while still being a word that people recognise and perhaps don't have as many incorrect cached thoughts for.

non-conscious sounds like something you are when you've been knocked unconscious... :)