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I don't recall when I first realized how insanely good at driving humans are, but I was a kid, and in Bayesian terms it gave me a strong prior for the existence
by carapace 6y ago
I don't recall when I first realized how insanely good at driving humans are, but I was a kid, and in Bayesian terms it gave me a strong prior for the existence of some sort of Guardian Angels until I learned more about how the our motor minds work.
We move with extreme precision and coordination on the unconscious level even when we seem clumsy or uncoordinated on the conscious level. We are acting out cultural and personal formats or roles, a kind of post-hypnotic suggestion. This is part of the reason that you can learn hypnosis and accelerate learning: we are operating at a fraction of our potential due to old programming, upgrade your software and it unlocks "new" capabilities.