For example, if you’re standing 20 feet away from me, and you tell me to throw you a ball, how is my arm able to generate almost the exact amount of power required to throw the ball 20 feet? How and where does this “calculation” happen?
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All animals do variations of these calculations. How does a cat know how much force to exert to jump four feet onto the kitchen counter and land precisely? It’s just a base brain estimation of “what percentage of force that I can control do I exert in this situation?” An old person and an old cat both have to make a different calculation than a young example of either, but both do it. And we both occasionally get it wrong.
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