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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It’s all prior experience and muscle memory. Any child who grows up in basketball country has done literally thousands of reps of heaving a basketball towards a hoop. The brain learns from all those experiences how to compensate for distance, height, weight, and even windage.
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