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  1. Where would we be without all these researchers, and studies, and the highly advanced Oxford? How in the name of one’s prime deity had the primitives, dark agers, and medievals ascended from abject unknowing and superstition?
    Had only they known what we know, imagine what they could have built.

    There’s too much time, too much “money”, and too many of the educated with nothing better to do.

  2. That is a very different form of motor control than the spinal reflexes which are often called “muscle memory” in athletics or martial arts.

    Conscious control of limbs and muscles, such as learning how to wiggle your ears or forming the vulcan V with the hand.

    Generally the reason why thinking is often a good way to get killed in battle is because the frontal lobes take too long to process every specific neural command. Moving movement and skills to a part of the brain that doesn’t require shifting that far into the brain’s consciousness, would reduce signal lag and improve micro second response time.

    Consciously thinking of every single movement you need to do is generally not a good idea when the heart beats more than 180 beats per minute. It’s often necessary due to the imprecise movements at that high a heart beat, but it is very slow compared to more automatic movements.

    The only time a person does have enough to consciously look at and react with each individual movement, is if they shut off the brain’s auditory and emotional processes, in order to develop what some call “slow time”.

    Or in other words, viewing the world at 60 frames per second or greater than that, which essentially “slows” things down to the point where 1 second has very distinct “frames” that you can think about and react to.

    In most cases, automatic movements are faster and smoother, depending on training and context.

  3. Tried this tonight with Mr Whatsit. At first, I could only spot the big and little toes. The middle ones were complete mysteries. With practice, I got better, which was reassuring.

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