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'Zen' bats hit their target by not aiming at it
ScienceDaily (Feb. 5, 2010) -- New research conducted at the University of Maryland's bat lab shows Egyptian fruit bats find a target by NOT aiming their guiding sonar directly at it. Instead, they alternately point the sound beam to either side of the target. The new findings by researchers from Maryland and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel suggest that this strategy optimizes the bats' ability to pinpoint the location of a target, but also makes it harder for them to detect a target in the first place.


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by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Sun Feb 7th, 2010 at 01:28:53 PM EST
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sounds like they're hedging their bats.

(sorry!)

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Mon Feb 8th, 2010 at 04:39:09 AM EST
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Castenada's Don Juan was insistent on the value of 'not looking'. And of course human peripheral vision is much more sensitive in low light. I tried it once running hard through a dense night forest. And sustained no injury ;-)

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by Sven Triloqvist on Mon Feb 8th, 2010 at 04:49:34 AM EST
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sometimes i listen to music more accurately if the front of my mind is occupied reading text!

starrr...ange

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Mon Feb 8th, 2010 at 07:21:00 AM EST
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i used to practice run/jumping along big boulders along the hawaiian coast, and building up to it with practice, was able to do it quite fast, and completely 'unthinkingly'.

the art of 'gauging' works better with an indirect focus, i guess, the very act of concentrating on the trees takes away from a bigger flow that enables you to perceive the forest better.

or something batty like that...

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Mon Feb 8th, 2010 at 07:36:47 AM EST
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