How skills developed through muscle memory can be performed almost without any thinking?

Question

Such as,

* Riding a bike
* Playing a muscial instrument
* Touch typing on a computer keyboard
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In: Biology

Answer 1

I mean, it’s literal memory in your brain. Repeating motions kindof saves those motions as a pattern in your brain. So then when you need to do the motion again, instead of having to think about every individual step, your concious mind can reference that memory as kindof a shortcut, and then only worry about tweaking finer details.

Practice a lot of those finer details and those all get their own sections of memory in the brain, and then you can focus on even finer details, or just do the original motion with near zero concious thought.