Your brain knows you more than you think

 The unconscious workings of the brain are so critical to everyday functioning that their influence often trumps conscious thought. There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing. Consider the simple act of changing lanes while driving a car. The motion of turning the wheel rightward for a bit, then straightening it out again would steer you off the road: you just piloted a course from the left lane onto the sidewalk. The correct motion for changing lanes is banking the wheel to the right, then back through the center, and continuing to turn the wheel just as far to the left side, and only then straightening out. You are not consciously aware of the vast majority of your brain’s ongoing activities.  The best choice is that you not want to be because it would interfere with the brain’s well-oiled processes. The ability to remember motor acts like changing lanes is called procedural memory. It is a type of implicit memory meaning that your brain holds knowledge of something that your mind cannot explicitly access.

By the early 1600s, René Descartes had already begun to suspect that although experience with the world is stored in memory, not all memory is accessible. The concept was rekindled in the late 1800s by the psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus, who wrote that “most of these experiences remain concealed from consciousness and yet produce an effect which is significant and which authenticates their previous existence.” To the extent that consciousness is useful, it is useful in small quantities, and for very particular kinds of tasks.

I agree with the fact that my brain knows me more than I know myself  because sometimes I do things, but I cannot explain how I did them  or demonstrate the process step by step. I suspect my brains well, but too dab it cannot talk.