That's not quite true. When catching a ball we constantly adjust as we go so we're not perfectly calculating where it will land. We can train humans to roughly approximate where a ball will land, that's about it.
This is just a matter of precision. The fact that you can probably start adjusting in a meaningful and probably correct way while the ball is still going up is significant. Somehow that person's brain is doing a thing they may not have the symbolic knowledge to describe.
> Somehow that person's brain is doing a thing they may not have the symbolic knowledge to describe.
And we can draw roughly correct circles but most people don't know the equation for one. I'm not sure that's particularly significant though, but I may have missed your point.
No the ability to draw circles is impressive. The amount of math and calculations being done in the brain to perform such a feat is incredible. Programming robots to do even a limited range of the things humans do, is nearly impossible.
