[Ichneumon]

["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.

Furthermore, let's not get carried away in patting our species on the back for the way "the human mind" is capable of "intuitively grasping" things (like anticipating the movement of a thrown object and catching it) that *nonhuman* species can also do:

And when it comes to "intuitively grasping" ballistic trajectories and aerodynamics and so forth, most birds have humans beat by a longshot...

Finally, it turns out that people's "common sense" experiences with motion often result in misunderstandings about how moving objects actually behave: Naive Theories of Motion.

[js1138]

Finally, it turns out that people's "common sense" experiences with motion often result in misunderstandings about how moving objects actually behave...

It is the verbal descriptions that are mistaken, not the "intuitive/learned" sense of trajectory. The behavior of baseball/frisbie catching humans and dogs is quite in tune with reality.