My eye was predicting the actions of combustion man from three angles. First, from a probabilistic set of equations; second, from a set of geometric equations based on his present and recurring physical motions; third, from a set of equations depicting his neural chemistry – in a very real way, I was predicting which way he would look before he looked, I was predicting where he would aim before he would aim, and I was doing it not by reading his mind but by reading the chemical reactions in his nervous system.

There was no reason I couldn’t see his nervous system, either. His clothes were just revealing enough of his musculature that I could accurately speculate what he would do before he did it.