why can your brain quickly process something like the angle and speed needed to throw something to someone , but would have to work to figure out the math behind the throw?
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Your brain learns the same sort of way AI does. You give it inputs from your eyes which tell it the end result which gives a feedback of how far off it was and in what way (too fast, too slow, too high, too low, too left, too right)
Your brain has a series of outputs tied to motor neurons controlling your muscle groups.
As you age, you’ve fed your brain thousands and thousands of test cases. That first time you managed to connect a bottle with your mouth. That first time you crawled with your arms. The first time you reached out and grabbed something.
Your brain develops a good mapping of how motor neuron firings correlate to the observed outputs your eyes have fed back.
By the time you are ready to throw a ball, your brain has a pretty good guess of how many muscle fibers to move, and it what order, to result in the desired output. No math required, entirely organic in every sense of the word. It’s a very complicated fleshy control system that makes this happen, with thousands of neuron by neuron weight functions that dictate how it will steer your muscles.
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