Bence thinks that some relationships that look weird and novel in the octopus case are present in our case too, if we look hard enough. They are usually invisible to us, but they are there. Suppose you are reaching for an object with your hand. If the location or size of the target you are reaching for suddenly changes, your reaching movement changes extremely quickly—in less than a tenth of a second. This is so fast that it is unconscious. Subjects in experiments don’t notice the change—they don’t notice that they’ve changed their own movement, and don’t notice the change in the target
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