""Do you play/learn golf better when you're thinking about that big teetering pile of generalisations, or when you're just in the moment, in the experience, not-thinking, not-knowing?" Really this question you posed would be better presented as: Do humans (a) do X and (b) learn X better when you believe Y, or when Z you're in the know nothing state?  (a) and (b) could be identified according to and/or contexts.  (Indeed is it clearly established that Y and Z are mutually exclusive?) Whispering advocates the latter as better.  Do we have observational competancy consistently demonstrated to confirm this as a accurate distinction and thus an effective model? or is this for the most part purely hypothetical thus far?