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Comment author: Fhyve 09 December 2012 08:46:11AM 0 points [-]

We would call subconscious functions instead of well-defined sub-algorithms because they are much faster, and time is valuable.

I suspect that in some cases the subconscious function will be more accurate than most sub-algorithms and you would choose it because of that.