Research highlights the importance of subconscious in learning. It suggests that that our understanding of the world is guided by a process that we do not have conscious control over.

Electrical stimulation of the macaque ventral tegmental area drives category-selective learning without attention. Neuron, 2021; DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2021.02.013 ...

When the monkeys received subconscious visual stimuli while the ventral tegmental area was stimulated, they knew details about those images afterwards. For example, they knew whether the bodies ...