"Technical Machines"

A wizard did it. Duh.

I dunno. Apparently you place them on the Pokémon's head, the disk glows, and hey pretso, your Pokémon learned a new move. Before TMs couldn't break I might've said that they ate them... but that still doesn't explain HMs.

Maybe Pokémon are actually machines, and download the move information from the disc?

 

Oh wait I got just the thing: http://youtu.be/b9QXdBq7NGw
This perfectly explains it (or not your call xD)

 

I knew that you have seen that, but I wanted to share it with the rest of LV xD

Now for my game theory: There might be this special scanning device involved that scans the information into your Pokémon, I don't know xD

 

I don't know, I guess this is with the same logic as Pokémon fitting into little plastic spheres.

Maybe there are certain little electric thingies in TMs that react to certain electric thingies in a Pokémon's brain, so that's why it's placed on the head. Who knows!

 

In Firered and Leafgreen, it actually showed you putting the disc on your Pokémon. Back then, I always imagined just pressing the disc into the Pokémon's head until it broke in half. And then voila, the Pokémon knew the move. Lmao.

Or just like, popping the disc into a DVD (TM?) Player and having the Pokémon watch an educational program about how to use that specific move. xD

Honestly, I have no idea how they really work.

 

In FR/LG you indeed see them plant them in to a Pokémon's head. It's really creepy! Do you like...inject these TM's in to peoples heads? It's pretty gross.

 

I've always wondered how these things work. Back when I first played LeafGreen, I thought these Pokémon learn from TMs by watching like a tutorial or something using the trainer's Teachy TV.

Maybe you don't use them on the Pokémon but rather on the Pokéball where the Pokémon stays in. The Pokeballs convert Pokémon into data, right? Maybe you just stick the disc to that button on the Pokéball when your Pokémon is inside and it transfers data from the TM to the Pokémon's brain??

 

Well, in order to first make assumptions on how someone learns something, you actually have to understand HOW someone learns something. You may or may not have known this, but in our brains we have these little things called synapses. They are pretty much the things that control, well, everything. At the end of these Synapses are little strands (I forgot the name. Don't kill me). Every time you learn something new, a new strand is added to the synapse. It's like a new path that your electrons can take when jumping from one synapse to another.

Think of it like this. You're driving to your friend's house. You've been traveling this path for years, but you notice another road and decide to take it. It ends up taking you 10 more minutes, but it still leads to your friend's house. You learned a new path. Now, I have Hazel eyes. If you didn't know that, a new strand was added to a specific synapse in your mind that's connected to memory.

I like to think that the TM's emit a sort of frequency that the Pokémon understand. Perhaps it adds more strands to whatever synapse is connected to learned moves.