In my mind, the experiment is valid as long as the target becomes aware of the incoming projectile (propelled by combustion, so either standard contemporary rounds or matchlock balls, or cannonballs, or ICBMs, or what have you) at the point of initial acceleration - i.e. when the shot is fired, at the earliest. The target isn’t required to be aware of the projectile at all for the experiment to be valid.
Then it is considered a successful dodge if the target, by use of nothing other than its own physical capabilities, avoids being hit. For a bullet, this’d be dodging, for an ICBM it’d be running away, I guess.
Also, poor targeting doesn’t count as a dodge, it’s just wasted time.
Edit: and by “target/thing which exists on this planet” I mean something which exists without human generation (other than procreation) - i.e. not a bullet-dodging machine.
Fair point, laying it out!
In my mind, the experiment is valid as long as the target becomes aware of the incoming projectile (propelled by combustion, so either standard contemporary rounds or matchlock balls, or cannonballs, or ICBMs, or what have you) at the point of initial acceleration - i.e. when the shot is fired, at the earliest. The target isn’t required to be aware of the projectile at all for the experiment to be valid.
Then it is considered a successful dodge if the target, by use of nothing other than its own physical capabilities, avoids being hit. For a bullet, this’d be dodging, for an ICBM it’d be running away, I guess.
Also, poor targeting doesn’t count as a dodge, it’s just wasted time.
Edit: and by “target/thing which exists on this planet” I mean something which exists without human generation (other than procreation) - i.e. not a bullet-dodging machine.