I had family here for about two weeks about a month ago, and it allowed me to observe humanity in the wild (or in captivity if you want to think of it that way).
See, I have two (locking) doors between the outside and my apartment. In the middle is kind of like no-man's land. The innermost door was broken a little bit before they came and I did not get around to fixing it given I still have the outside (and more secure door of the two) preventing access. I do not get around to a lot of things, but that story is for another day.
Also, I did not tell them because as comes with parents visiting a certain amount (additional) nagging would no doubt occur.
Once unlocking the outside door, you can push the inside one whether it is locked or not. The family members, however, did not pick up on this fact for the entire two weeks in which they resided in my house. They would turn the handle and noticing it was locked would either knock or use the key regardless of it's pointlessness. They are simply (still) in the dark.
The door's standard operation involves 2 to 3 steps.
(1) Insert key and unlock (if necessary)
(2) Turn knob and
(3) Push (probably simultaneously with (2))
Now, when (2) is not possible, it is assumed (3) is also not possible, thus (1) is initiated whether or not (as in the case of my broken latch) it is necessary.
Conclusion: Human Science tells us that in the process of operating a door a brain can never initiate the action of pushing said door should its knob not turn (if it is a certain type of door usually requiring knobs) regardless of a lack of physical limitations preventing such an action from resulting in an open door.
Which leads me to propose my first hypothesis:
If a certain order of processes in an operation are in the domain of Common Knowledge then Human Science dictates that any contradicting order is impossible regardless of actual fact in the domain of Physics and/or Reality.
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