A Thing That Necessarily Exists in Humans: The Subconscious — When a Single Word Is Spoken, Who Is Managing That Whole Set of Movements

This paper argues one thing: a person speaks every day and cannot say which parts of his body move when one word is spoken. This is not because the act is simple; it is because the coordination is far more complex than he feels while speaking: what he has in hand is only what he means to say. Three readings support it. A word requires throat, tongue, lips, breath and vocal folds in place together, and two different sounds move different parts. The speaker cannot give that coordination, cannot even say which parts move for two different sounds, and yet it is carried out billions of times in a life. No child is taught how to voice, yet he voices all manner of sounds; what adults then teach him is names, not voicing. Remove this thing and all three contradict what is observed, and so does the fact that nearly everyone still speaks at life’s end. Therefore something stores each sound together with the whole set of parts that produce it and runs it so; this paper calls it the subconscious. Operation delivers four items: what is stored is a finished link, not a statement; the intake belongs to results, not to teaching; the running does not start from consciousness, and storing and having are two accounts; stored links are reused, not reinstalled. The paper passes no verdict on a person, ranks no progress, locates nothing, and claims nobody holds a readable list of parts.