> sure, but I think it's fair to say that brains probably aren't doing lballistics calculations when a baseball player sees a pop fly and manveuvers to catch it.
Well, I know you were talking about throwing, but there is some[1] talk/evidence in the evolutionary biology/neural darwinsm community that complex language development was a consequence of human developing the ability to hunt by throwing rocks (a very complicated and highly mathematical task). From my understanding after developing the required shoulder/arm morphology to throw at high speed brain sized tripled in early hominids.
So the brain actually might be doing something closer to math than we might think.
Well, I know you were talking about throwing, but there is some[1] talk/evidence in the evolutionary biology/neural darwinsm community that complex language development was a consequence of human developing the ability to hunt by throwing rocks (a very complicated and highly mathematical task). From my understanding after developing the required shoulder/arm morphology to throw at high speed brain sized tripled in early hominids.
So the brain actually might be doing something closer to math than we might think.
[1]https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/002251...
[2]https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-5...