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Warlord as a Fighter option; Assassin as a Rogue option
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<blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6047448" data-attributes="member: 6696971"><p>This is just not true. After behavior is practiced enough, the role of "decision-making" becomes automated and moves from the conscious mind to the subconscious mind. Pattern-recognition and instinct predominate as we no longer engage ourselves consciously. There are no "decisions". This is for very mundane, slow-moving activities such as driving. The process is sped up and exacerbated dramatically in endeavors that require split-second information-processing and reflexive physical response. When you are an athlete/pilot/etc and you are trying to determine an "angle of pursuit/attack" against an extremely fast-moving target, within the scope of mili-seconds your subconscious mind paramaterizes and solves an extraordinarily difficult, multiple vector calculation. In the span of those same mili-seconds, it commands your body to react and your body then does so. The best martial actors possess unparalleled capacity in this domain. Well, that coupled with amazing spatial awareness/orientation (which helps them paramaterize those sub-conscious equations accurately) and extraordinary alacrity, dexterity, coordination and speed which allows them to render the subconscious decision making of their opponents (instincts and reflexes) flawed. That relationship itself is a circumvention of classic "free-will". You are not "free" to make a conscious decision about whether or not you want to be "decieved."</p><p></p><p>We're talking instinct and reflex...both honed by the operative condition of practice and exposure and a product of the domain of the subconscious mind...not conscious decision-making...not "free will" in the vein of; "Well, now...hmmmm...this gentleman has thrown a small cowhide ball in my direction at 97 miles per hour...it appears to have something of a sinking motion to it and it started on the inner half of the plate...there is a decent likelihood that it may end off the plate...however, I have two strikes and I don't wish to put the outcome of this exchange in the hands of the bloke behind the catcher with the mask and the chest protector...yes, I think I shall swing now and at this angle with respect to the oncoming ball". Life and death martial conflict with a master swordsman with super-human speed moves at a similar pace, with a similar margin of error and a similar number of vectors...all with higher stakes and greater pressure.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Manbearcat, post: 6047448, member: 6696971"] This is just not true. After behavior is practiced enough, the role of "decision-making" becomes automated and moves from the conscious mind to the subconscious mind. Pattern-recognition and instinct predominate as we no longer engage ourselves consciously. There are no "decisions". This is for very mundane, slow-moving activities such as driving. The process is sped up and exacerbated dramatically in endeavors that require split-second information-processing and reflexive physical response. When you are an athlete/pilot/etc and you are trying to determine an "angle of pursuit/attack" against an extremely fast-moving target, within the scope of mili-seconds your subconscious mind paramaterizes and solves an extraordinarily difficult, multiple vector calculation. In the span of those same mili-seconds, it commands your body to react and your body then does so. The best martial actors possess unparalleled capacity in this domain. Well, that coupled with amazing spatial awareness/orientation (which helps them paramaterize those sub-conscious equations accurately) and extraordinary alacrity, dexterity, coordination and speed which allows them to render the subconscious decision making of their opponents (instincts and reflexes) flawed. That relationship itself is a circumvention of classic "free-will". You are not "free" to make a conscious decision about whether or not you want to be "decieved." We're talking instinct and reflex...both honed by the operative condition of practice and exposure and a product of the domain of the subconscious mind...not conscious decision-making...not "free will" in the vein of; "Well, now...hmmmm...this gentleman has thrown a small cowhide ball in my direction at 97 miles per hour...it appears to have something of a sinking motion to it and it started on the inner half of the plate...there is a decent likelihood that it may end off the plate...however, I have two strikes and I don't wish to put the outcome of this exchange in the hands of the bloke behind the catcher with the mask and the chest protector...yes, I think I shall swing now and at this angle with respect to the oncoming ball". Life and death martial conflict with a master swordsman with super-human speed moves at a similar pace, with a similar margin of error and a similar number of vectors...all with higher stakes and greater pressure. [/QUOTE]
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