09-21-2015, 04:20 AM
My take on this concept is a psychology term called 'scripting'. I do not believe muscles have memories however our brain does. All knowledge, and specifically behavioural or action beliefs are stored not only in schemas but within schemas, there are scripts. These are efficiency mechanisms that allow us to navigate through life without having to figure things out for the first time, every time.
For example, driving a car. The first time is full of stress and clumsiness. We are connecting disparate knowledge in organised patterns to achieve a sequential task. In time and with practise by evoking these scripts we can not only drive efficiently but multi-task while driving, eating, thinking, listening to music, almost effortlessly. Through repetition we hone our scripts which are constructed neural connections allowing us to act/behave. Opening a door without thinking about how to do it the first time. Immediate action drills when the weapon stops almost as if we are not thinking. The more repetition (practise) we do the more precise our scripts will be - the more fluid our motions will be, the more likely our body will be in the correct posture, and the less we are required to concentrate on performing the sequenced behaviour.
Perform a physical task often enough and we can almost convince ourselves it is automatic and without cognition. But it is still our brain thinking it through just acting with more precision and more efficiently by evoking honed scripts.
For example, driving a car. The first time is full of stress and clumsiness. We are connecting disparate knowledge in organised patterns to achieve a sequential task. In time and with practise by evoking these scripts we can not only drive efficiently but multi-task while driving, eating, thinking, listening to music, almost effortlessly. Through repetition we hone our scripts which are constructed neural connections allowing us to act/behave. Opening a door without thinking about how to do it the first time. Immediate action drills when the weapon stops almost as if we are not thinking. The more repetition (practise) we do the more precise our scripts will be - the more fluid our motions will be, the more likely our body will be in the correct posture, and the less we are required to concentrate on performing the sequenced behaviour.
Perform a physical task often enough and we can almost convince ourselves it is automatic and without cognition. But it is still our brain thinking it through just acting with more precision and more efficiently by evoking honed scripts.