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by bujak300 1409 days ago
The unconscious component is crazy, my otalian SO was trying to teach me to do some of the gestures correctly but she was not able to execute the gestures consciously, only in the flow of speech
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Reminds me of “The Centipede’s Dilemma”:

A centipede was happy – quite!

Until a toad in fun

Said, "Pray, which leg moves after which?"

This raised her doubts to such a pitch,

She fell exhausted in the ditch

Not knowing how to run.

Subconscious. Unconscious gestures would not be very interesting as they're mostly just snoring.

(I am aware we already lost this battle with the now-canonized-as-professional-jargon misnomer term "unconscious bias".)