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learning to ride a bike has me very aware of how weirdly flexible the human motor control system is. like…when you move your body, you dont express a will to move your hand in such and such a position or whatever, you just express a will to catch the ball or whatever the specific task is, and your body does it (or fails to). and sure, this makes sense, it would be overwhelming managing your body all the time. but the thing is, after an honestly pretty small amount of practice, controlling a vehicle works the same way! you dont express “press the pedal down slightly harder” you just express “go faster”, you dont express “turn the handle bar slightly” you just express “turn, at this particular angle”. i guess this happens with computers too to an extent, although you interact with a higher variety of interfaces, so you usually dont get any more elaborate than “click that point” or “type those letters” in terms of innately thought actions. although keyboard commands can enter your direct-thought actions, where you dont think “type ctrl-z” you just think “undo” and it is (un)done. idk, you can imagine an organism with less flexibility to “merge” psychologically with its tools, which always thinks of the tool-actions it performs in terms of the body-actions which cause those tool-actions, rather than the tool-acts directly.