In baseball, there have been great outfielders like Willie Mays who could do
this: He'd see the batter hit the ball, and, within well under a second, he'd
turn and run for seventy feet or more with his back to the ball; at last he'd
pull up and turn back -- camped precisely where the ball was coming down.
He wasn't seeing into the future. His much-underestimated intellect was doing
some exquisite, very fast calibrations. I used to watch Gale Sayers do
something very comparable, and, say I, similarly cerebral. Look in on one of
the
Celtics games later this week. On a fast break you will see as many as three
guys
handle the ball within one second. My persistent philosophic point: It's
utterly foolish to claim each of the players was articulating in words his "
thinking", and it's equally foolish to say that therefore "he wasn't
thinking".
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