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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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When I was super young, and also when I got older and went over the high wall (at that point in my life I was manic a lot and seeing things that weren't there) I had what a shrink called a "partially integrated identity" I referred to as "Scout"
I could explicitly present problems to Scout and Scout would eventually ping me with the answer.
When I was three Scout (which I didn't name at the time) was a narrative in my head that taught me how to read.
I still have that, but it's sort of receded into the woodwork with medication. It still dutifully churns on answers to problems that vex me, but I don't/can't explicitly direct it anymore, or if I can, only indirectly, kind of like (as Rabbi Abraham Twerski described) "reaching around your own head and grabbing yourself by the opposite ear and then pulling yourself along."
I described the above to a mathematician I know and they were like "aha! I have something very much like that but I never gave it a name"
What I thought was fairly unique wiring in my head maybe is not as unique as I had thought - something I find both comforting, and ever so slightly disappointing.
So now I'm curious how many of you multitask in this manner, with a little helper in your head that feels like someone else or otherwise external to you, whether or not you give it a name?
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Yes. We don't talk, but he works away in the background and feeds me a solution, tied up in a red ribbon. I suspect he's quite a bit brighter than I am ... 
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I feel exactly like that.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I sometimes think that he's the real OriginalGriff, and I'm the imaginary friend he keeps around to deal with people.
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If you read the book, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain[^], By David Eagleman you will come upon split-brain studies and discover that you are actually designed as two people.
Back in 1950s or so there were some patients who had grand-mal seizures that doctors couldn't figure out how to fix so they tried something drastic. They cut the corpus callosum (wires that connect the two sides of the brain).
Afterwards they noticed that the patients had some interesting experiences.
Zombie-hand
One patient described the situation where there are cookies on a plate in front of him.
He is not supposed to eat the cookies.
The patients left hand moves toward the cookies and the patient yells out, "I didn't do that!"
Team of Rivals
This is the way the mind was designed and it keeps you safe.
The author calls your brain A Team Of Rivals.
That's because one half may think, "let's do A for sure" meanwhile the other half of your brain says, "That is dangerous and you must consider these things and do B" And so it goes.
Although many people do not understand it and modern garbage science has even pushed some to believe they have dissociative personality, it is likely that certain people "hear" the communication between the two parts of the brain more clearly.
Read the book and you'll see there is much science that shows us that our split brain is what helps us target in on the correct solution. Some people just completely turn off one half and do stupid things.
Other people turn off the other half and cannot move outside of the box.
Yet others are just confused by all the noise of the "talk" in their brain.
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Yes, I also did not name it, I consider that to be a part of me, and as my programming skills went up I started thinking of it as one of many "subconscious mind threads", you know, like one for driving, another one for say art appreciation or software development. So I have several such "mind threads" and use them as I need to. And as I learn new things, I develop more such "mind threads".
Developing the one for driving was really hard now that I think of it.
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Julian Ragan wrote: Developing the one for driving was really hard now that I think of it.
Thank you for letting me feel less alone and weird
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Frank the Rabbit tells me what to do.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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My rubber duck helps out with thorny problems.
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Hate to burst your bubble but I think most people have a background task (or two) running. It can seemingly bridge the gap between conscience and subconscious and thus often times work on problems we don't even realize we have.
Since I turned 50 y/o (almost a decade ago) mine tends to surface at 3am - yet not revealing it's "answers" until I'm standing under a hot shower a couple hours later.
Giving it a name though... yeah, that's weird! 
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It's not really about backgrounding, but the external aspect of it. It feels like it draws on knowledge I don't have access to, almost as if it operates independently and external to me.
That's the fulcrum of the question I'm posing. Not so much, "can you multitask, and draw on your subconscious?" but more what is your experience with it? How does it manifest for you, and especially, does it feel external?
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Mine never feels external... it may recall details about past experience or past learning that my conscience had forgotten. It certainly makes unusual connections that my conscience may not. But it always feels like a part of me.
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Yes, and his name is I Am.
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Definitely, not only I always have a "contrarian me" whose only task in life is to deconstruct everything I do and point out all the areas of improvement but provides solutions to what I'm doing.
Heck, I remember having trouble understanding angular momentum for months until the other me probably got superpissed and fed me the understanding in my dream. I bolted awake sitting straight up with a full comprehension of angular momentum. I still owe him one.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Similar thing, but rather than give me answers to problems, it just sings. It usually starts in the middle of the night when I wake up briefly (old man's problem) and continues with the same song when I wake up properly. Today's song was "Ilkley Moor Baht'at"; about a person walking on Ilkley Moor without a hat, and at risk of catching their death of cold.
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 That made me laugh in the middle of the office
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Some people call it intuition. Some others call it as God.
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I do not experience anything quite like that, but it reminded me of how the two hemispheres of our brains are like two separate entities that work together*. In my case the cooperation/communication between the two is mostly at a subconscious level, but I could see how it could rise to a more conscious level in some folks so that you can actually perceive two "entities". Do a web search for Divided Consciousness, it seems similar to what you describe.
*Look up Callosal Syndrome to see extreme examples of this.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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How do you know we aren't all Scout's and CodeProject isn't just a figment of your imagination?
Maybe I'm simply the "Scout" telling you to add curly braces to your single-line if-statements 
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i can tell you that the nothing i am now owes a lot to the nothings i invented in childhood 
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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That reminds me of a Robert Fulghum book. 
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I kind of envy you. Mine just tells me "Why did you say that stupid thing 20 years ago".
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Mine does that too. 
If only it was as good at math as it was stoking my anxiety.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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