<p>I am reading this intriguing book titled <em>Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts</em> (2014) by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislas_Dehaene" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Stanislas Dehaene</a>. In one of the chapters he talks about how the brain has natural division of labor, by which he meant that the unconscious brain would be doing the math, or the hard work and generating probabilities, and then the conscious brain would collapse the probabilities and choose the most elegant or beneficial one to the specific situation. </p>

<p>My question is regarding the vocabulistics of the unconscious brain, or the tools employed by it. Does the unconscious brain have very "set in stone" tools or do these tools for information processing increase and evolve as we learn more. However, wouldn't that mean that the conscious processing was inturn leading to the evolution of the unconscious, and for the lack of a better word, <em>a trickle down effect</em>?</p>

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2015-03-29T09:03:30.113Z
Welcome to CogSci. Trickle-down evolution? I've heard of trickle down economics, but that's new to me. ;)
Christian Hummeluhr
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2015-03-29T15:19:01.923Z
@ChristianHummeluhr No i just made it up to extrapolate the idea of trickle down economics to consciousness because trickle down economics or evolution seemed to explain my thoughts
sanster9292
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2015-03-29T16:31:48.573Z
The creation of new automatic processes is well researched process. There could definitely be a good answer about the basics of moving from deliberate to automatic processing.
Josh
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2015-03-29T16:51:54.493Z
I think it's a good question, the phrase just made me chuckle.
Christian Hummeluhr
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2015-03-29T16:53:28.530Z
@ChristianHummeluhr It is a curious phrase and i thought it elucidated my idea well
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Can the knowledge and the tools we acquire in conscious brain become tools for the unconscious brain?
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# Can the knowledge and the tools we acquire in conscious brain become tools for the unconscious brain?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-03-29)

I am reading this intriguing book titled *Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts* (2014) by [Stanislas Dehaene](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislas_Dehaene). In one of the chapters he talks about how the brain has natural division of labor, by which he meant that the unconscious brain would be doing the math, or the hard work and generating probabilities, and then the conscious brain would collapse the probabilities and choose the most elegant or beneficial one to the specific situation.

My question is regarding the vocabulistics of the unconscious brain, or the tools employed by it. Does the unconscious brain have very "set in stone" tools or do these tools for information processing increase and evolve as we learn more. However, wouldn't that mean that the conscious processing was inturn leading to the evolution of the unconscious, and for the lack of a better word, *a trickle down effect*?

**Tags:** experimental-psychology, consciousness, unconscious

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Welcome to CogSci. Trickle-down evolution? I've heard of trickle down economics, but that's new to me. ;)  
> **username_0**: @ChristianHummeluhr No i just made it up to extrapolate the idea of trickle down economics to consciousness because trickle down economics or evolution seemed to explain my thoughts  
> **username_2**: The creation of new automatic processes is well researched process. There could definitely be a good answer about the basics of moving from deliberate to automatic processing.  
> **username_1**: I think it's a good question, the phrase just made me chuckle.  
> **username_0**: @ChristianHummeluhr It is a curious phrase and i thought it elucidated my idea well  

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