What is "nonconscious"

Usage examples of "nonconscious".

Or is such basic cognition nonconscious, but nevertheless intentional, in the sense that the organism has some kind of nonexperiential knowledge of incoming stimuli and motor skills?

The troublesome hunch had arisen, we concluded, when connections were made in that huge nonconscious data bank.

All of this is totally unconscious to typical cultural natives, in two senses: we can never really directly experience neurotransmitters per se (nor the computational processes), but we can become aware of them theoretically if we just study neuroscience (we can remove the unconsciousness in that sense: we can gain the objective theoretical awareness of the nonconscious processes, just as we can gain scientific knowledge of subcellular biochemical processes, and so on).

Back in cloud-time, preparing himself, he'd edited out any need or desire for food, drink, sleep, sex, companionship, or even a change of scenery, and he'd preprogrammed his exoself-the sophisticated, but nonconscious, supervisory software which could reach into the model of his brain and body and fine-tune any part of it as required-to ensure that these conditions remained true.

Back in cloud-time, preparing himself, he'd edited out any need or desire for food, drink, sleep, sex, companionship, or even a change of scenery, and he'd preprogrammed his exoselfthe sophisticated, but nonconscious, supervisory software which could reach into the model of his brain and body and fine-tune any part of it as requiredto ensure that these conditions remained true.