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I have heard people say that about 95% of our thoughts are non-conscious. I have heard people say that 58,000 out of about 60,000 thoughts that we have each day are non-conscious. I have heard that our brains are processing 400 billion bits of information per second while only being conscious of 2,000 bits (What The BLEEP Do We Know?). I have heard it enough to even use it in my conversations, thought-processes, and this blog. The trouble is, when searching more on the subject, I could not find any evidence for any of these stats.

I’m not saying it’s false – it definitely seems like there are thought processes going on below our conscious level – I just want a published, peer-reviewed scientific paper that provides some numbers. Otherwise it could be that we only have 5% of non-conscious thought, but it does not works as well for some self-improvement gurus, so they fudge the numbers.

If you remember reading that claim somewhere, and it is referenced, would you kindly send me the details of that reference? I’d like to nail this sucker down and not use some nice-sounding stats that have no backing.

Until next time,

V

Tags: Neo-Spirituality, Non-conscious

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