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crfriend wrote:What's being referred to in the quote is more of what's known as a "sensorimotor behaviour" than any sort of "lack of control". These are behaviours that are learned and become fairly autonomous. To use the case of walking, the brain will make a decision to walk in a certain direction, and at a certain speed, and the semi-autonomous sensorimotor system takes over, up to, and including, sometimes avoiding obstacles. Recall that we must learn to walk; the programming begins there, and it's us that are doing said programming. This works in many situations, up to, and including, driving a car; watch how somebody who is just learning to handle a couple of tons of steel and plastic handles the vehicle and then watch an expert driver who's been doing it for years. It's all learned, and we have to learn it -- and know how to make our bodies perform the correct actions.
I can see that. It's like driving a stick. When you first start out, you'll stall and jerk and carry on, but after a while, the vehicle seems like it becomes an extension of your body. It's the same thing with the fork lift at work. Once one gets used to handling it, you can put it just about anywhere and working the controls becomes as second nature as walking, or lifting a box by yourself.
