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For conscious math yeah that's true. We also do a lot of unconscious math. Catching an arcing ball flying through the air for example. We don't think of that as
by tstrimple 3y ago
For conscious math yeah that's true. We also do a lot of unconscious math. Catching an arcing ball flying through the air for example. We don't think of that as math because it feels so natural to us, but our brain is tracking trajectory and speed and you're coordinating your body to intercept based on those details. Similar story with throwing a pass to where you know someone will be. Those sorts of skills become ingrained to the point where they become a reflex, but it's math computation behind the scenes.
- casey2 3y agoWhat math exactly does the brain do while you are trying to catch a ball? Just because you can mathematically model the trajectory of a ball doesn't mean your brain is using that model. The standard method humans use to catch a ball is stabilization at a few updates every second, while the classic method used to tract the trajectory of a ball is newton's method of fluxions. Humans suck at both compared to computers; though the former isn't as much a shameful a loss as the latter.
- tstrimple 3y agoBecause that's what studies into this suggest. https://news.mit.edu/2018/study-reveals-how-brain-tracks-objects-motion-0306 https://news.mit.edu/2018/study-reveals-how-brain-tracks-obj...
- boringuser2 3y agoThis is simply ridiculous.