Your non-conscious brain is perceiving, learning, and making decisions for you all the time. But because all of this takes place on a subconscious level, you are generally unaware of the process. It’s an amazing part of your mind and yet, for the most part it seems to operate quite independently.
By the way, your non-conscious brain (or mind) is the same thing as your subconscious mind. Neuroscientists prefer the term “non-conscious” because they feel that it does away with a lot of non-scientific baggage that is attached to the old term. For our purposes though, I will use the terms interchangeably.
Your non-conscious brain is parallel
While your thinking mind can be completely absorbed with a single thought, it’s quiet counterpart can easily be busy thinking five or more thoughts all at thee same time! The problems that we associated with multi-thought processing do not seem to exist on the subconscious level.
Your subconscious mind is big
The conscious part of your mind is a relative lightweight, accounting for only about 17 percent of total brain volume. Which means that the subconscious part of your mind is a heavyweight making up the other 83 percent.
Your subconscious mind is very fast
Impulses involved in the thinking process travel at about 120 mph. A virtual crawl compared to the subconscious impulses which travel at more than 100,000 mph. That is about 800 times faster!
Your subconscious mind is controlling
You may think that your conscious mind is in control, but in reality it only controls about 2-4 percent of your behavior and perception. On the other hand, your non-conscious mind controls 96-98 percent of your behavior and perception!
Your subconscious mind is extremely powerful
The part of your mind that you can readily access to process information operates at the rate of around 2,000 bits per second. It’s subconscious counterpart processes information at 400,000,000,000 bits per second.
WOW! My conscious brain is very intimidated and is needs to sulk for a while.
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