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To: WildTurkey

No because one of the more interesting aspects of the human mind is that it intuitively grasps the highly complex physics of the projectile and can tell you where to stick your hand to catch the ball with a remarkably high degree of accuracy. Now if I actually tried to calculate it I'd be done an hour after the ball hit the ground, so I suppose that's some sort of conflict of knowledges there, but I've always been pretty good at knowing when to go by instinct.


265 posted on 01/20/2005 7:10:25 PM PST by discostu (mime is money)
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To: discostu

"No because one of the more interesting aspects of the human mind is that it intuitively grasps the highly complex physics of the projectile and can tell you where to stick your hand to catch the ball with a remarkably high degree of accuracy. "

Actually, that is a learned skill, not an intuitive one. You can watch the process by visiting peewee league baseball games. We don't intuitively know how to catch a ball. We learn how to catch a ball.


340 posted on 01/21/2005 6:10:53 AM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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