Let me give an example.

As a dancer myself, early on, aerials have a difficult initial mental barrier.

The common way to learn is to essentially let your teacher control your muscle movements, repeating the overall motions, over and over again.

April 11, 2026 - 17:17 UTC

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this is almost like chipping in, just like in the Cyberpunk TTRPGs! except we don't have neural links yet, so the control is external… but one day, maybe…
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Someone else's muscle memory, huh.
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By sort of “proving” the movement is possible (giving up autonomy!) the concept suddenly clicks, and you’ll “just get it”.

I feel like there’s probably a lot of interesting biological barriers that could be overcome if you trained yourself to go past limits by electrical stimulation first.
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as a kind of learning tool this makes sense and is a much better idea
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For a good example of this, look up the Bannister effect!


Anyway, here's the paper, it's a fun read:
lab.plopes.org/published/2024-CHI-SplitBody.pdf
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Racing cars (my hobby) is similar. It's very hard to explain how to drive at the limit, because your conscious mind is too slow. You have to feel it a few times, then it clicks. Of course... it's expensive to mess it up...
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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adn3802 and this traces all the way back to Schumann hah
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