If you look at the unconscious part of the mind as a data repository full of knowledge stored in a question/answer format... What happens when the conscious part of the mind decides something qualifies as new knowledge and it's treated as such?
That's were the idea of a steady state processing engine fits in. Each new piece of knowledge would trigger a scanning analysis of all directly or indirectly affected questions/answers. It's where the unconscious continuous maintenance is performed. It's so continuous and even it's mistaken as the 90% of the brain we don't use. When there's nothing new to scan or fit in then an error check can fill the need while allowing the continuous nature to be uninterrupted.
When a potential piece of knowledge is found there needs to be a spot it fits. The scanning analysis identifies where in the mind or on the edge it belongs.
It's an understatement to say information on every possible subject exists on the internet.
Search engines scan through it all to link together pages. They even expose some of that as useable knowledge
