Close clockwise, Open counter-clockwise

Guessing the Guesser
In an event of opening a tap, or rather a lid we involuntarily do a counter-clockwise movement. The opposing action happens in case of closing it. So, how does that happen? Aroused by curiosity of how this memory is organized, i did a little observation. Of course this did not cover many scenarios, but did gives some partial insight as to how certain rules of game have been encoded in the memory.

Experimenting with Lid/Tap
Whenever i open the tap or a lid, i have this feeling of loosening or a 'fall' with a recessive flavor. And whenever i had to close the lid, i had a feeling of sitting over the top and tightening up which had a dominant flavor. So, is that related to something that we are talking about? Yes indeed! Whenever i had to open or close (lid or something that requires a spin), i get this feeling triggered and hands automatically work upon it. Does not matter where the location of opening is. Be it in a vehicle where a small knob has to be opened inside the chassis.

Counter Experiment
On the contrary, to check if this might have some truth, just imagine a room of lids of two types. One is a blue lid and the other a green. We assume the experimenters (of course humans) attach themselves equally to both the colors. This is to be ensured to play a fair game. Now, the blues have a peculiar (rather unconventional) property that they open clockwise and close the other way. They behave exactly opposite to the way the greens operate. Now, the experimenter has to randomly operate on the lids by opening certain lids and closing certain other if they are open.

The Outcome
What would be the outcome of this thought experiment? Compare the outcome with the normal lids the experimenter would successfully operate (open/close) on. With the color lids in place, the initial phase would be a learning for the experimenter to make a conscious move, slowing down his actual speed accounting for learning as we would call as 'getting used to'. After sometime, surprisingly, the experimenter would just start with a fairly good speed on the task. But when compared to the monotonic lid open/close, it would be slow by certain folds. Why is this discretion in speeds?

The way it gets allocated
The way the things gets stored in the mind, the way we perform. It is rather interesting to make a guess or to investigate on the reason why the above could've occurred. Just list out the combinations one would have to generate to have a comfort in opening the lids.

Blue Lid: [Open] Clockwise [Close] Counter-clockwise
Green Lid: [Open] Counter-clockwise [Close] Clockwise

So, we have a total of 4 (not so large) combinations. That would take sometime as well as a proper emotional event (in terms of 'feel' patterns) to be registered. So that on seeing the color of the lid or its shape, we would get the emotional pattern triggered and the involuntary notion takes an action and makes us to open the lid in an appropriate way. The time for learning this is relatively low and is highly subjective. All one needs to get through is to choose appropriate 'feel' patterns. Most often, if we just think of this event, we would end up with feel patterns automatically. The mind seems to cook up with what it had in the 'mood' room.

This is also another reason why once out of this experiment, if the experimenter is so involved, or learnt deeply, [s]he would involuntarily try to open a conventional blue lid in an opposite way.

Im Driving... Eureka!
Not funnily or coincidentally though, if you have ever wondered how one could drive a complex car/bus/flight or a ship? If you say it is not at all complex, try to list down the states that the vehicle could be put into and the appropriate actions that must be performed at those stages. Then you could really be proud of yourself! But be proud of the nature's creation, and proceed to see how this could be possible. All one could arrive at is, we _do not_ maintain state tables marked by transition functions as one would come across in the theory of automata. They define the actions that take place in a thin line. Moreover, the actions have to be achieved faster bypassing the conscious unit. Involving the consciousness in place would be costlier in terms of time as well as energy. The conscious unit in mind does decision making and it needs lot more inputs such as environment factors etc. that would take a high initial time.

One would not want to think a lot and always come across the 'get use to' phase in driving, isn't? This could be achieved only if we have an involuntary access to actions. The involuntary actions are granted with associations to certain 'feel' or emotional patterns. I feel i need to drive this vehicle. Immediately i sit inside the vehicle and my hand involuntarily plugs in the key at the keyhole, turns it on and starts it. Then, as if pre-programmed, the mind allocates consciousness to something other than keen details of driving, such as enjoying(!!) the beauty of the landscape through which i drive rather than remembering myself to escalate the gear levels as and when i top speed. Also, by seeing another vehicle coming on the other side, the leg automatically goes to the brake and applies it.

Interesting fact is that how do one learn how hard to press the brakes? Hmm, again if we observe into what we do, we apply the brake rather slowly and gracefully when we are at a top speed and if we are at slower speed, we do apply it pretty hard when compared to the above. How does the body measure how much speed are we running on? We do not see the meters every time and apply brake. All seems to happen partially involuntarily.

Habits - Happy Bits
The actual strategy behind it all is to associate a 'feel' pattern which generates an appropriate current pattern that commands the body parts to operate in a way they are ought to be. This is also one more reason why sometimes certain things called 'habits' come into picture. "Oh sorry, I've done it habitually", an usual sentence, isn't? Getting into a habit is rather easy, but getting out is rather hard. Generally believed to be an universal advice, is rather true in most of our senses. It is easy to get into a habit that is small or locally capture-able. We mean by locally capture-able when an event (or habit) is small enough to be associated with not so large 'feel' pattern that does not require involvement of consciousness. Once got associated, depending on the likeliness or exposure to situations that would kindle such feel patterns, we have a high probability of exhibiting that habit. To overcome something of a habit is to consciously observe when we do it and try negating the registered feel patterns thus reducing the strength of impact of the same.

A literary ODE
Oh, my GOD! What all did you put in top of me? How did you ever come up with such a design? If given divinely eyes and a choice to read a book, i would choose "THE BOOK" which is suppose to have all the answers to all the "ask-able" questions. Still miles or rather lights away from the perceived reality, let the journey proceed.