The scale of decisions (Time and location) and chaos

Question

Some ideas I am seeking thoughts on:

1. When I place a glass on the bench, how much was decision? I [presumably] did not decide to place it with atomic accuracy. What are the bounds of accuracy available to me and what bearing does that have on the decisions available to me? It would seem my decision equation is something like: DecisionOutcome = DecisionPrecisionAvailableToMe ± ErrorFromChaos Does that mean that all decisions are subject to chaos of varying degrees?

2. The same applies to time; did I choose to place the glass on the table at 12:00.00000 or 12:00.00001?

3. If I fail to catch a ball because I was either too late (or early), or spatially wrong in my actions, I [presumably] still chose to catch the ball. Is the chaos in decision increased with say, acceleration (the movement of the ball)?

Answer 1

Your decisions are never inaccurate, they define the target, the intended outcome against which the accuracy of your executions is evaluated.

This inaccuracy of your decided actions is not due to chaos, it is due to randomness:

• If you don't know what exactly you should do to achieve your goal (to roll a die and get six), you have to do something random and hope for the best.
• If you do know exactly what you should do (to catch a ball), you cannot perform the act with absolute accuracy. There is some random noise in every step deteriorating the quality of your performance. With practice, you can improve your accuracy, but you will never reach absolute.

The difference between what you intend to do and what you actually do is closely related to signal-to-noise ratio. Your intention is the signal that gets diluted in the ambient noise until it is no longer detectable.

Answer 2

Your are greatly over-estimating the human ability to act with temporal and spatial precision. I would be surprised if an average person, without practice, could perform an act to within 0.1 second or 0.1mm.

You are also misusing the word chaos, as its usual meaning is complete disorder.

The acceleration of the ball, which you mentioned in the final part of your question, might be a factor in certain circumstances. For example, in cricket a ball that bounces unpredictably is more likely to be missed by a batter. However, you should not imagine that the movement of the ball affects the accuracy of the batter. The batter makes decisions with some degree of precision; the movement of the ball determines the degree to which the precision of the batter is sufficient.

Answer 3

"To catch the ball" it is not decision - it is reflex. You can't think an move together(maybe some one can, but it s very very hard). You either think or you act. When you decide to "place a glass on the bench", you decide to end the control of not-doing, not at doing. you have decided to do something "because", and then you decide to wait and not do an action till the moment. It is like taut bowstring- you dont need a decision to shoot, you need to decide when you release the bowstring. All other action is the reflex of bowing, catching and else serial of simple motions, that are unconscious.

Time is an illusion with reflection. You don't have a clock in the head with either mechanic or atomic. To feel the moment of time - is a reflex. Reflexes accuracy depends training, not on thought decision. But reflex consists of simple segments, you may make an effort to switch the segment, but if fast moment it is not a decision. There is time limit the braine become aware of what is happening - read about Libet Experiment. There is a gap between braine activity (the decide, probably) connecting to nervous and motions about 250+250* ms between thinking and doing. Also the nervous accepting the braine signals/commands is different, fastest and most precise are eyes and fingers - Fine motor skills. In theory FMS needed to create definitions for braine primarily, in you don't able to write small symbols by hand. your braine haven't small segments of reflections, that mean that your braine have less ability to make fast switching between other simple actions.

The speed and the precision are close and work together. But not all decisions need fast and accurately execution. Strategic, tactic and technically are not same. You can up the catching skill if you think out the plane of the trainers, or change a starting position before catching. What is the decision to catch? - you don't need it if you had prepared.

So, you formula needs more variables, and the chaos is not a variable - it is a measurement error, and other accidents, and the black swans rarely. And this is only if the black swan is not a reality, but it esti, that means the chaos is not the swans - not the reality's "answer", but your self decide.

*250ms is a middle number, im retard and have 300 ms on fingers reaction(reflex) speed, Messi i think have 100-150 ms.