 The example of a conversation is especially telling, Cavendish supposes – “for most commonly words flow out of the mouth, rather customarily then premeditately.” In the course of a conversation a string of thoughts often just comes to us, and then we utter them. A similar example is that in which we come to have a witty or clever idea in response to a situation that we inhabit. It’s not that we have the conscious idea already, among many other conscious thoughts that are in our mind, and then we choose to express the one that has a high-relevance flag attached to it; the thought just presents itself. Or if we have many thoughts and one has attached to it the high-relevance flag, something attached that flag, and that is cognitive work. Or we might consider the case of the late-night talk-show host who thinks of exactly the right thing at exactly the right time, though it is one of perhaps a hundred million possible thoughts in their wheelhouse. But they think of – and utter – just the one. Cavendish shines a light on the phenomenon by positing the existence of unconscious cognitive workers in the brain that wisely select our thoughts and put them before our conscious mind. She writes (“Of small Creatures, such as we call Fairies,” in Cavendish 1653a, 162):