And here is a good example - I discovered it just after I sent my original note: Each time I send the instruction to type "your" ie Y-O-U-R, my subconscious brain types Y-O-U (note the error in the title "Training you own Brain" - should be "Training your own Brain"). Why it misses out the trailing 'R' and why it refuses to take updated instructions is a mystery to me. If I type slow enough for the conscious mind to send single instructions ie for each letter separately, it always gets it right.
Despite being dyslexic (thanks to my computer for taking over the role of the faulty bits of my own brain) I rarely miss-spell more complex or more recently learned words. But that is because they are not set (subconsciously) and so the conscious mind recalls the word and sends the instructions letter by letter. But if I typed at that rate it would have taken over an hour (69:18) to type the last note (1s per letter, 4,158 letters). But at that rate I would not have been able to compose (as the conscious brain would be engaged in the typing): catch 22!!
Although the standard and erroneous line is that I am responsible for everything I type (I mean the letter by letter, I'm not referring to the content or concepts) and I can certainly recall tapping the keyboard (though the erroneous keystrokes are completely absent from any recollection) if the erroneous part of my own brain were replaced then the only change I would notice is the very well behaved spelling and typing (carrying out all instructions accurately).
I am no more conscious of the activities of this part of my own brain than I am conscious of the spellchecker in my computer. The replacement of the faulty part of my own brain would have little impact on my consciousness, therefore it was not and never is conscious (except that some of it's output may become conscious after the fact).
Note that an impact on consciousness would occur when checking the activity of the replaced part of the brain, but this is little different than upgrading your computer's CPU - you notice it, when you do it is part of your conscious content, but it is not an apparatus used for consciousness.
Kind Regards, Robert Karl Stonjek.
© Robert Karl Stonjek 2003