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Hmm. Now that I think of it, this phenomenon exists in cognitive tasks too. Nonfiction writing is very natural. Fiction writing is very unnatural (not counting real-life stories that you just find in the right shape).
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Why is it that for some physical things, the right way is also a natural way (eg: swinging a tennis racket) and with others the right way is the unnatural way (eg: golf swing — knees stay bent on the downswing but “want” to straighten out)? Other examples? General principles?
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Just hit me that Trump talking is basically a darker, not-charming version of what this child is doing. Just inventively rambling on, one damn thing after the other, with only loose orienteering towards an narrative objective that is frequently forgotten via derailings.
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In classical mechanics, Newtonian feels more natural, Lagrangian less so, and Hamiltonian downright fake. Something like an acquired taste process along the learning curve. In math, everything except integer arithmetic and geometry feels artificial at first.
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