Just a short post about how I realize my unconscious brain has input in my professional life, specifically when coding or doing complex operations. Just now I was doing a big upgrade of the scheduling system for our Anton supercomputers, and in step 20 of about 50 steps or so my conscious brain says to do something else that I had forgot, that was not done correctly the first time, something that might bite me if not fixed. A nagging unconscious voice says no, what you're doing is not needed. Be careful, look around. Like the room got darker, slightly, without any change to the light. The problem is the unconscious voice is non-verbal for me, so I only get a binary-like yes/no signal from it. And sure enough, when I looked around it had actually been done correctly (by me, but some time ago). The thing I was about to embark on would have been redundant, and could interfere with the old way, causing confusion.
It would have been clearer if the unconscious brain verbalized this, but I'm glad to have the binary signal anyways. I wonder if others have observed anything like this.
