Unlearning how to ride a bicycle

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#1 [Permalink] Posted on 10th February 2020 07:59

Is it possible to forget how to ride a bicycle once you've learned to ride it? This fascinating experiment shows us how to mess up our brain into forgetting how to ride a bicycle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFzDaBzBlL0

[Video contains faces.]

Three conclusions:

1. Welders are often smarter than engineers.
2. Knowledge does not equal understanding.
3. Truth is truth, no matter what I think about it.

We should be very careful how we interpret things, because we are looking at the world with a bias, whether we think we are or not.

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#2 [Permalink] Posted on 10th February 2020 10:01

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The first thing people do is set their position and then their natural instincts take over. Modifying a bike to do what it should not do isn't unlearning to ride, it's experimenting and brain training.

I haven't watched the full video, but did they try this experiment with someone who can ride the bike with no hands to start with?

1. Welders are often smarter than engineers. Engineers are often smarten than welders too
2. Knowledge does not equal understanding. Knowledge is the lost property of a believer, understanding is the work of all but most importantly, the teachers
3. Truth is truth, no matter what I think about it. And what are alternative facts? (Rudi Giuliani - "Truth isn't Truth!")

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#3 [Permalink] Posted on 10th February 2020 13:28

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You're being such an abuzayd2k by commenting on a video without watching all of it.

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#4 [Permalink] Posted on 10th February 2020 21:19

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Very interesting video but unfounded conclusions, here it is done in 3 days:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI2aMKwXXnE

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#5 [Permalink] Posted on 11th February 2020 03:58

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That was very illuminating, thank you.

However, even by day 5, the new guy didn't seem like the backwards bicycle came to him naturally. He was still a little wobbly, meaning his conditioning was not complete. This is likely why he was able to return to the regular bicycle so easily.

At the end of eight months, the old guy had it down so the backwards bicycle was second nature to him, and I guess that is why it took him a while to "snap back" to being able to ride a conventional bicycle.

I have to admit after watching that second video, it now looks like old guy probably did use some exaggeration in his conclusions.

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#6 [Permalink] Posted on 11th February 2020 09:47

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The reason I am sceptical about this is because it is similar to driving a left hand or right hand drive car on the other side of the Road.

And with little practise it can be easily done, person would ofcourse be more proficient on his own side.

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#7 [Permalink] Posted on 11th February 2020 13:33

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The concept is certainly similar, but it seems the dissonance experienced by the bicycle rider would be much greater. Also, balance is a big part about riding a bicycle. And, a rider does not learn balance in isolation, but his balance is heavily dependent on his steering, as the video apparently shows.

With driving a car on the wrong side of the road, the driver doesn't need to worry about balancing.

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#8 [Permalink] Posted on 11th February 2020 14:04

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Disagree, slightly.

Driving on the other side of the road is disorienting and confusing and I have regularly seen people get into accidents.

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#9 [Permalink] Posted on 11th February 2020 14:09

Handwriting! Left hand or Right hand.

It's all a matter of brain training. You cannot just forget. To adapt to something new, you train the brain.

I wrote:

The first thing people do is set their position and then their natural instincts take over. Modifying a bike to do what it should not do isn't unlearning to ride, it's experimenting and brain training.

Start writing with the other hand and tell me you forgot how to write with the normal hand :) Did you unlearn how to write? No :)

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#10 [Permalink] Posted on 11th February 2020 14:13

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This is probably more noticeable in the developed countries where there is traffic discipline.

Here in the developing world, we just drive on all sides of the road, all the time.

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#11 [Permalink] Posted on 11th February 2020 14:16

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When in Pakistan, I ride the motorbike on the wrong side of the Road because my brain feels more balanced and easy.

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