Our Unconscious Minds Can Perform Complex Operations

Our Unconscious Minds Can Perform Complex Operations

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Who would have ever thought we could solve math equations in our sleep? Well, maybe our level of unconsciousness might have to be a bit more elevated but researchers from the Psychology Department at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem have found that we can actually read words and phrases or even solve multi-step mathematical problems without our having been consciously aware of them.

The team concluded that people can read and do math non-consciously. Their findings, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, fly in the face of existing theories regarding unconscious processes. These previous theories state that reading and solving math problems, which are two prime examples of complex, rule-based operations, do, in fact, require consciousness.