Truth about muscle memory.

[Loosedhorse]

It addresses intuitive decision-making, which enables the ability to "Observe-Act"

It does not, as they said. Decision remains. Decision IS removed in conditional behaviors.

post 53. In your reply you felt it more important to comment about my misuse of the term conditioned "reflex".

I was commenting not on your misuse of the term, but your misunderstanding of the concept (the difference between volitional complex motor skills and true conditional behaviors). In one decision remains, in the other, it has been trained out. Because I felt that misunderstanding might be the root of our disagreement. It might not.

In post 53 you state:

The shooter senses ("observes") that something isn't as he expected it (e.g., the trigger pull feels different, or the location of a manually operated control feature on the weapon is different, or the expected tactile feedback is different when manually operating a control feature) and shifts his attention from the external problem

I understand (especially as you apparently only train with similar guns) that might be true for you. For others, our attention would be shifted to the gun only if pulling the trigger did not result in "bang."

Perhaps you believe, because I train with both revolvers and semi-autos, that in a crisis if my revolver goes "click" I will attempt a tap-rack-reacquire. I don't believe that. How do you propose we answer the question?

That's petty.

Only if accuracy is petty. It doesn't impeach anything they said about (what they are calling) intuitive decision-making. It just means I wouldn't use a Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication...to learn French pronunciation.