I’m not sure if it’s a biology question, but how do people just know they’re going to hit something if they don’t veer a little to the left or the right without actually seeing it? Like not hitting a curb you can’t see but you park close to it.
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The human brain is an astoundingly good pattern recognition machine.
It’s essentially the same kind of skill as catching a ball. You don’t actively calculate the path of the ball and determine which muscles you need to move and by how much to get your hand in the right spot.
Your brain just recognizes that when I see a ball that kinda looks like that one does now, it’s going to look a certain way when it gets closer to me. Last time I moved my arm kinda like this, I ended up catching it, and if I moved kinda like that, I missed it.
Repeat that across many attempts and you’ve got a set of patterns that your brain can recognize and respond to on an automatic level.
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