First of all,I'm french so please forgive my languages mistakes Hi, thanks a lot for this article, I'd never heard about the inner simulator's notion before, now I've a word to put on it :), in a second part, do you think these skills are still semi conscious once they're learned?don't they pass on a conscious level, in my opinion once a skills or more generally a knowledge is learned, it pass from a semi conscious level to another which is more conscious if not totally. take the example of the maths problem, once the solving method is known (for a particular problem) you have to use this method in a conscious way. However it's not unconscious either, even if you spend a half life to study, this knowledge will not come out automatically, you have to found it in your memories which is a conscious mechanism. thanks for reading and sorry if it's a bit confused, in my native language it's easier :)

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