robertskmiles comments on Neuroscience basics for LessWrongians - Less Wrong

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Comment author: robertskmiles 25 July 2012 10:34:38AM *  2 points [-]

But it turns out that tasks that seem easy to us can in fact require such a specialized region.

In a way, this really shouldn't be surprising at all. Any common mental task which has its own specialised region will of course seem easy to us, because it doesn't make use of the parts of the brain we are consciously aware of.