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 unlikely that our brains are doing any specific math when deciding how to move our bodies to create the throw we want. It’s more likely that is putting together its best guess based upon experience making and observing hundreds or thousands of previous throws.
Even if you don’t consciously remember any of the details of those throws, your brain/body does in some sense, and can do a pretty good job of replicating those movements again, as well as slightly alter them depending on the requirements of this specific throw.
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