Our muscles don’t have little brains that remember how to move. It has to be a subconscious process, right?
And why is is that sometimes when we slow down to think about a highly practiced action, it becomes more difficult to do?
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>Our muscles don’t have little brains that remember how to move. It has to be a subconscious process, right?
Yes. Your muscles don’t have little brains, but they don’t decide when to move anyways, they just react to control signals from your brain. And your brain DOES have a brain that remembers how to move. The more you execute a motion command, the more all the little sub-steps of that movement get chained together.
Like if you change your password to mznx5, for a while your brain will have to “say” : press m, then press z, then press n, then press x, then press 5. But after a few hundred reps, that order of things gets bound together so the brain can execute “type password” as one command and all the substeps fire off automatically.
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