When mahammed ali sees a punch coming, he can just move out of the way. He has developed enough action nd understanding to be able to read the intention of other people. And that's something that an armchair boxing will never be able to do. So for example, this is consciously consciouss i rational, but it's conscious, conscious, yes, it's not even really conscious.
Stuntman and action designer Eric Jacobus joins EconTalk host Russ Roberts for a no-holds-barred discussion of the biological basis for violence and how to avoid the worst of it, the value of violence as spectator sport, and the vast superiority of duels to feuds--Alexander Hamilton notwithstanding.