Kingreaper comments on How is your mind different from everyone else's? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kingreaper 13 December 2011 04:00:53PM -1 points [-]

One possible explanation is simply awareness.

If you naturally develop a technique, you may not be consciously aware of it at all. But take some training, and all of a sudden your conscious brain is butting in going "this is the way to do it".

And, well, your CPU is going to be less efficient than a well-optimised RPU (Reading Processing Unit)