A Concrete Thought Experiment Example

One of the assertions that's made about abstract symbolic thinking is it allowed man to predict and hence shape the future.

When we throw or catch a ball or a stick, our brain and body predicts the future non-symbolically with relatively high fidelity in a way that's not at all symbolic or abstracted. On a windy day or other adverse conditions our brain and body can adapt to put even some weirdly shaped object--like a peanut--on a relatively narrow set of trajectories.