Tetlock, Prediction Processing and Feldenkrais

The cycle of how you make predictions, how you weigh their accuracy, revise them, notice your errors and then make better predictions… this is Moshé Fdk's 'pay attention.' In Lessons 274–276 of Awareness Through Movement® Lessons from Alexander Yanai (Volume 6, Parts A–B — "Introduction to Walking," parts 1 and 2, and "Partial Turnings to the Fronts") he has a wonderful discussion about how we move fast in order to hide the jiggles and wiggles and 'errors'—hide them from ourselves. (Try this with your tongue: move it fast, no wiggles. Move it very slowly? Probably tremors.) But when you slow down and pay attention, you get a rich gift: all the information about your hidden glitches. And for the most part, the quirks resolve themselves and your fast walk takes on a 'cleaner' character—your brain likes it, too—likes the results and enjoys the process. If you are in a high-stakes situation, walking or talking, you don't want to be seeking out error signals in your gait or speech! Nope. But—there is a huge advantage to finding a context where it is safe to explore your glitches and discombobulations, love on them (my term, not Fdk's) and let them melt away. And I predict this will be intrinsically pleasurable.