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Re: Single Motor Unit Training

"Patrick Hayes" <> writes:
> Sounds interesting.
> 
> 240 wpm sounds great, but how do you know that anyone can learn to control
> a dozen SMUs with four bit resolution each, independently and all at the
> same time?

After my first hour of practice I was able to play some good tricks
with 3 SMU's.  It took me a lot longer than that to memorize the
qwerty keyboard when I first started touch-typing.

The underlying learning principles are the same as those for any
physical training.  Learning to type, play the piano, dance, or even
twiddle your thumbs all involve training motor units.  The feedback
for each of these systems is different, yet we learn to adapt to
different forms of propioception, e.g. characters on a screen, musical
tones, or visible motion.  Any one of these systems involves much more
than a measley 12 SMU's.  How many characters can you type in one
second?

> Why did the field die out? How far did they take it at the time as far as
> demonstrating anything that worked?

The field of SMUT died out about 20 years ago.  The general consensus

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