Integration Beats Power
New computers can be designed in such a way that the components (cpu, memory, neural engine, etc) are integrated onto a single chip as opposed to having the components be spread across and connected through a motherboard. The tighter integration result in superior efficiency and performance, so that a device that with much weaker support (eg RAM) can run circles around a similar motherboard-based computer with more.
When we work on coordination and connection and teach our body to work as a unified whole, aren’t we working on an analogous process? Sure, we want to work on improving the component attributes themselves, the elasticity and strength and reaction and timing and and and. But by working on coordination and connectivity, we also get to work on pulling these together in a superior way, resulting in greater force transmission, efficiency, and still with the quickest time possible.
(With the system-on-a-chip design, it comes at a cost - a loss of flexibility/modularity. You cannot swap out components as easily. But we CAN adapt the components, and then re-solder the separate things into the unified whole, recalibrating the thing.)
If we didn't need integration, doing footwork and spine work would be enough to succeed in tasks using both, but when we confront a task requiring a synthesis of qualities, we realize it’s not. That task, which can be extraordinarily simple in nature, by operating at a higher level than the isolated qualities will produce many many connections between those various layers. Redundancy is thus built in.
And we don’t need perfect connectivity, to do reps of everything to everything else - once we do enough, like a team of teams, there is enough connection.
So, often it will seem like we are disconnecting things, like footwork from the spine, to accomplish a task, because there isn’t a 1 to 1 relationship between what the feet and spine are doing. But actually, they are integrated into countless new patterns (transistors, to stay close in the analogy). This is the singular power of these synthesis-provoking tasks.
(As above, so below)