"Magic"
Triangles and
the
Essential Time Factor
Time
is a "magic" factor strongly influencing performance in Cognitive Engineering
(see: Tognazzini 1993). Its effects are much less well researched than visual,
and spatial factors.
The
military represents that organized social body of humanity which has carried on
in an unparalleled manner the traditions of
fine-honed
time organization and coordination
from the earliest beginnings of hunt and warfare down to the age of
intercontinental ballistic missiles. As time factors are more of a secret
ingredient to victory, their importance has tended to be handled low-key: The
less was known about them, the better for the party relying on
them.
The
highest-ever perfection of
application
of time factors is in the
Asian
Martial Arts techniques
which rely on embedding their workings in the
subconcious
neuronal control levels
so that they can be applied below the awareness threshold (the cogent moment)
of the opponent. Here the "magic" can be seen at work, and the enormous
attraction of these arts testifies its effect.
