How do people learn skills that are absolutely deadly when executed sub-perfectly and don’t seem to have a set of easier to learn sub-processes to connect later?

Question

You know how for example there are people who can stop their heart through willpower and then reboot it after a while? How did they ever learn to make it start beating again, seeing as it not beating seems like a prerequisite for it. Would be a shame if you couldn’t get it back to beating after the first time you successfully stopped, no?

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Answer 1

Specifically for your example, humans cannot voluntarily stop their heart from beating. The heart regulates its own rhythm, and it will maintain it regardless of what we do.

It is possible to *slow down* our heart rate through conscious control, which certainly takes a lot of practice. But as for stopping it, there’s no scientific evidence to support that.