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don't worry, your unconsious mind will 'get it'" is overzealous.
Steve Lankton · 04/25/01 at 2:26 PM ET
Right...that ole "don't worry, your unconscious mind will 'get it'" is overzealous. My unc. may have taken in some sort of recording of all my sensorium over time but that does in no way come close to insuring me access to the data as knowledge. For instance: how many times did I not have to witness the tying of shoes many many times before learning it? The same goes for the alphebet, multiplication tables, etc. Simply experiencing the information may retain it in someway (maybe) but does not allow it to have the integrity needed for simple recall, sufficiently simulating or re-demonstrating it. What is well-learned (chunked, coded, rehearsed, etc.) and committed to the unc. is in fact reliable for re-play (practiced piano, martial arts, chunked and coded 'intellectual' material like songs, speeches, poems, phone numbers, etc). Still, a proper context for recall is vital to retrieve even that in many/most cases. (Like, name your 8th grade science teacher off the top of your head...not so easy. But with enough of the right environment, bingo, you have it. But, naming the color of the ribbon you saw on the kid in front of your row in that class on the 15th Monday? Not likely to happen unless you did, for some reason distinguish it out of the mass of sights and then chunked and coded it [that is, you 'knew' it at some time]. But this would be a very unlikely thing to retrieve. For data less 'known' by you or less 'meaningful' to you on that day -- there is no sufficient environment for you now to recall that data, and, while hypnosis would provide a chance, but a small one, to create that environment with words and experience you would not retrieve it under any other normal circumstances).
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