The Mystery of Moving a Hand
Nothing Better Than This Moment
August 9, 2023
dialogue

The Mystery of Moving a Hand

El Misterio de Mover una Mano

A student raises a question about the gap between thinking about a movement and the movement actually happening, and the teacher explores what it means to not know how something occurs.

The Mystery of Moving a Hand

A student raises a question about the gap between thinking about a movement and the movement actually happening, and the teacher explores what it means to not know how something occurs.

Here is something I notice or observe. I can think about moving my hand as much as I want.

But when it actually happens, I have no idea how it happens. I don't know if that makes any sense.

And by "no idea how it happens," what do you refer to? No idea about the mechanism?

I mean, I understand the mechanism intellectually, but...