Well, if someone is twenty times faster than you, even if you could see the attack before hand, haven't they already hit you twenty times in the time it has taken you to interpret the knowledge? Therefore you are running on a "lag" so to speak and are more apt to lose to the speed.
Maybe I'm wrong, but that seems logical to me... But then again I'm twisted so, bah.
Precognition, reaction time and speed.
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#26
shark42bait: you are evil...
shark42bait: i admire that in a woman....
I'm a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in an AWESOME rack!
"if you want to get out of a speeding ticket short skirts and crying are still the way to go" Kairy on "mythbusters"
LimePink: "Um, Mr. President? I was doing a suduko puzzle, and based on the hidden co-ordinates in the grid, I think Osama Bin Laden is either here : points on map: or here :points to another spot within 5 miles:. Also, Jay-Z killed Tupac Shakur and the lost treasure of Atlantis actually turned to the glacier that sunk the Titanic."
shark42bait: i admire that in a woman....
I'm a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in an AWESOME rack!
"if you want to get out of a speeding ticket short skirts and crying are still the way to go" Kairy on "mythbusters"
LimePink: "Um, Mr. President? I was doing a suduko puzzle, and based on the hidden co-ordinates in the grid, I think Osama Bin Laden is either here : points on map: or here :points to another spot within 5 miles:. Also, Jay-Z killed Tupac Shakur and the lost treasure of Atlantis actually turned to the glacier that sunk the Titanic."
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Clearly, we need a complete and objective experiment to determine this through direct observation. Perferably, one funded with many hundreds of millions of dollars.
In the meantime, however, my instinctive thought lies with the camp that says "realizing it's coming isn't the same thing as being able to adequately handle it". There is nothing about the concept of "precognition" (in any form I think I've seen it in) that inherently includes eye/hand coordination, for example. Knowledge (as it exists in the brain) is no substitution for muscle memory and physical practice. I can read very detailed instructions on how to perform a tracheotomy, but that doesn't make me a surgeon. (For that matter, one set of muscle memories are no substitute for another set-- no matter how good you are at first-person shooters, racing games, or flight sims, that is not the same thing as being able to survive an actual firefight, drive an actual car, or land an actual plane. It might give you slightly (or even significantly) better odds that someone who's never even played such games, but I still wouldn't bet money on ya.
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To take it from a slightly more philosophical approach: Posit two combatants, dueling with swords. Both are equally precognitive. One of them is a master swordsman while the other has never lifted a blade in his life. Who wins?
In short, I am going to land on the side that says precognition means you can talk the talk, but it's no substitute for knowing how to walk the walk as well.
--The Elder Dan
In the meantime, however, my instinctive thought lies with the camp that says "realizing it's coming isn't the same thing as being able to adequately handle it". There is nothing about the concept of "precognition" (in any form I think I've seen it in) that inherently includes eye/hand coordination, for example. Knowledge (as it exists in the brain) is no substitution for muscle memory and physical practice. I can read very detailed instructions on how to perform a tracheotomy, but that doesn't make me a surgeon. (For that matter, one set of muscle memories are no substitute for another set-- no matter how good you are at first-person shooters, racing games, or flight sims, that is not the same thing as being able to survive an actual firefight, drive an actual car, or land an actual plane. It might give you slightly (or even significantly) better odds that someone who's never even played such games, but I still wouldn't bet money on ya.
)To take it from a slightly more philosophical approach: Posit two combatants, dueling with swords. Both are equally precognitive. One of them is a master swordsman while the other has never lifted a blade in his life. Who wins?
In short, I am going to land on the side that says precognition means you can talk the talk, but it's no substitute for knowing how to walk the walk as well.
--The Elder Dan