Complex Systems As Fundamental Theory Of Sports Coaching?

TL;DR

This paper proposes that complex adaptive systems, especially biological quantum computation, can serve as a foundational theory for understanding sports coaching and human behavior, emphasizing evolutionary and quantum aspects.

Contribution

It introduces the idea that biological quantum computation and complex systems theory can underpin a new scientific framework for sports coaching and human decision-making.

Findings

Quantum entanglement may be facilitated through systematic sports coaching.

Complex adaptive systems offer a promising foundation for modeling sports and human behavior.

Biological quantum computation could explain rapid decision-making and motor responses.

Abstract

We argue that traditional Western science cannot adequately describe sports and other types of human behavior. Then we make an argument why a complex adaptive systems approach has the potential to provide the foundation for such a theory. We claim that a special role will be played by biological quantum computation in the human brain that should have emerged through biological evolution. Biological quantum computation could have provided evolutionary advantages in the area of decision-making and fast motor responses, when a number of potential actions -represented as a set of points in a high dimensional state-space- are available to the agent. While for animals and early humans these rapid, coordinated motor activities had direct survival value, today they are mostly manifested in competitive sports events. We suggest that entanglement can be facilitated by systematic sports coaching.