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Ep14 "Why do we have so little access to what’s happening under the hood?"

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman

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How to Hit a Fastball Without Conscious Awareness

You don't need to be consciously aware to perform sophisticated motor acts like changing lanes or hitting a baseball. You can do lots of things well with no consciousness involved because your unconscious brain is taking care of all the details for you. When consciousness does get any insight it's always the last one to hear the information so think about hitting a baseball in 2010 the Guinness Book of World Records clocked a fastball from the Cincinnati pitcher or all this Chapman at 105.8 miles per hour.

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