Balancing a cup and changing it's angle to avoid a spill.
A ball rolls off a table and we catch it.
Riding a bike we constantly keep balance.
These are all acts done by our high processing brain to make predictions about the future.
We make 3D models of objects in the world, and we model how they move. We do this in our minds, before they happen in reality.
We are physics geniuses, who can predict the future!
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Jason Fischer and colleagues at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, scanned people's brains doing a task involving intuition. It was found that we have a physics engine, like a game engine, that predicts how things will happen.
It turns out, we don't execute any actions without first running a model of it in our heads. And we do this on a mere 20watts of power. No game engine will do that! We use a tenth of a graphics card.
This physics engine has its limitations, to classical physics, the world we live in and experience. Making sense of an unreality we don't live in, like quantum "physics", is not something we can easily make sense of.
Go BRAIN POWER!
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2016-12-14, 6:20am