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> Perhaps our brains are optimized to have the pilot train the autopilot (so to speak) when necessary

In a process commonly known as dreaming? I don't think that it is a coincidence that new tasks car we are currently learning to perform (that are still "piloted") often appear in the occasional snapshots of that somehow cross the boundary to our daytime consciousness.



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