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We don’t know how we retrieve information from our brain. The conscious part does some triggering; it acts as a valve; it can be a brake or it can be an accelerator. But the conscious part is less than one-millionth of the retrieval process. The rest is subconscious. There is an automatic process. When we can’t remember a name the brain doesn’t forget we asked the question, although maybe we have forgotten. But the lags are variable, and therefore the feedbacks are not orderly. The only conscious part is the holding back of irrelevancies. And this is true of reading, too.
