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[Pedro Cerrano]

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[RShack]

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In the future, they will laugh at us for thinking that learning and mastery is all in the brain.  The problem wasn't his brain.  The problem was that his hands and arms had learned how to do certain things.  So his hands and arms had to learn something backwards from what they knew.  That just took time.  But it's about his hands and arms learning, not just his brain.

 

We already almost-but-not-quite realize this re: muscle memory for P's and other kinds of specialized athletic performance... but as soon as something puzzling comes up, people just assume it's about neural pathways.  But it's not.  

 

We already know this from doing everyday things like driving.  Once you learn how to drive, the knowledge resides in your limbs.  Most of the time you're driving, your arms-and-hands and your legs-and-feet just do it without you paying attention.  Your eyes see stuff and communicate with your extremities.  Except for being a conduit for that kind of communication, you only need your brain when something interrupts what's normal.  

 

And it's not just our limbs that learn, even cells learn... and we're just beginning to learn about that...