"Walter Bright" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> I'm also another person that finds semicolons magically appearing at the >> end of statements...even when I use a language that doesn't allow them ;) > > It's funny how that works. I was once asked what the key command was for a > particular operation in my text editor. I didn't know, so I started the > editor and did the operation, watching my fingers, and reported the key > command.
I've noticed that a lot in videogames. I never know what button does what, but after trying a few buttons I get a "feel" for the controls, and on subsequent plays, I still have no idea what does what, but as soon as I grab the controller I can just "do" everything. I think most gamers are like this too. There's been mention about this in Scientific Americam Mind recently. Don't remember exactly which issue or article, but there was a big thing about the brain's "sense of body ownership", that part of the brain responsible for it, the implications of it (such as how controls can become second-nature, such as when driving a car - the brain literally treats it as if it were part of the body, about the only difference is that a real limb has neurons that act as a "mini-brain" that can learn - that part wasn't mentioned in the article, but the Science Channel talked about it once), and the problems that can arise when this mechanism gets confused (out-of-body experience, phantom limbs, "disowning" limbs and in some cases assuming the limb to be "evil" or a communist (I'm not making that up!)).
