How do we as humans know how much power to use when launching an object?

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What I mean is, for example, basketball, how do we know how much power to use to make it into the basket or like when you toss a piece of trash into a bin, how do we know how much power and the angle needed to just launch it and make it in the basket. I feel like we all have tossed a piece of trash in the bin, and just instinctively know how how much power to use.

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I’ll assume it’s not F=MA.

After all we were throwing things well before Newton.

We don’t know. Is that an honest enough answer?

We do not understand the brain well enough to gather how it calculates highly complex trigonometry functions in real time.

Odds are it doesn’t. Mathematics is just a tool we created, not a neural network in the brain.

Here’s a question that’s similar: How do bodies of water find resting states?

If you were to understand this concept, that of conservation of energy and optimal path solution. It’d probably give you an insight into how the brain is making these calculations.

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