Our brains, our consciousness, memory, learning, thinking - all these things are far more complex than we know. As a species, our perception of the world is limited by our senses. If we had access to more senses, our beliefs would change with our new perceptions of the world. Other species have abilities that seem magical. The Arctic Tern can travel from the Arctic to the Antarctic without a map. A Chinook salmon can return from her Pacific travels to the river where she was born. I'm pretty sure that our brains do more than we can explain. All the time.What I do know is that our subconscious is far more complex than the average person likes to believe.
briandmyers would like to believe his chess experience was more than coincidence. Of course, there's no way to prove it, yet.