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> No, it doesn't. What this episode tells us is that humans often have frequent false positives, when it comes to pattern matching. This is common in most animal, and is the part how we perceive the world.

Yes but you must put this in context: we're talking about a professional here.

For example, a lot of people don't succeed at diet and exercise: they somehow give up or lose motivation. You can find all sorts of biological roots that explain this behavior, but it's not appropriate to apply this same reasoning to a top professional athlete.

In "Go", assuming that your opponent can see something that you can't see is one of the bad habits that gets beaten out of you as you become stronger (and if it doesn't, you'll continue to be a weak player).

It seems that this doesn't happen for chess players.



Unless that professional athlete has been replaced by a machine, the same bio-logic remains. All humans are error prone. This isn't something you can remove with practice. It's built in so to speak.

What you talk about in Go is probably more in line with dispelling the "Fear aura" that happens on higher level.


What's funny is that you make the same mistake you are mocking: assuming that Go players are so close to perfect that they could never make a mistake.




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