I mean, surely you can just apply your very own experience to the matter, right? Try this: remember what you were doing at this time last week, down to the minute, as though you were currently experiencing it. Every sight, every sound, every movement and every sensation.
Can you easily do that? What were your eyes focusing on as they moved 2-3 times per second on average? Can you remember each movement? But okay, you say, you weren't actually learning or "focused" or whatever at that point, so that doesn't count. Alright, try this: recall the times table you learned in grade school. Go ahead and say them out loud in whichever order you memorized them in.
When you were doing that, what was happening in your mind? Did you picture that crusty old laminated times table that was up on the wall across from you, hearing the sounds of the other children writing and moving in their seats? Did you feel the hard plastic seat under you as you desperately tried to instill that 7x12 was 84?
Can you easily do that? What were your eyes focusing on as they moved 2-3 times per second on average? Can you remember each movement? But okay, you say, you weren't actually learning or "focused" or whatever at that point, so that doesn't count. Alright, try this: recall the times table you learned in grade school. Go ahead and say them out loud in whichever order you memorized them in.
When you were doing that, what was happening in your mind? Did you picture that crusty old laminated times table that was up on the wall across from you, hearing the sounds of the other children writing and moving in their seats? Did you feel the hard plastic seat under you as you desperately tried to instill that 7x12 was 84?
Or did you just remember the abstract concept?