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(The Arrival movie was based on) Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

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The Subconscious Mind and the Brain

We know that our brains, like 80% of the stuff that we do every day is subconscious thought. Your brain is constantly trying to find things that it can sort of blackout so that it can run more efficiently. I wonder if the biological response to get smarter is just our brains attempt to be able to settle down and then we just never let it. So I guess dumb people are just being nice to their brains.

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