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Could someone explain what he meant about the wise abstracting their knowledge into myths? What’s so special about Jesus turning the other cheek and Odysseus go

Could someone explain what he meant about the wise abstracting their knowledge into myths? What’s so special about Jesus turning the other cheek and Odysseus going home? I feel like it’s straight forward what they are metaphors for (forgiveness and I guess for the odysessus one it’s you can’t run away from your problems), unless I’m still not going deep enough which is most likely the case. It’s this kind of thinking that scares me because I feel like I stop a bit short in my thought, and I’d like to go deeper without going off the deep end

uncle_ted 7y ago
My interpretation is that fof+hot might not have immediately obvious utility, so that it's made into myth(heuristics?) when it's particularly valuable. For example, in fof+fot it wouldn't make any sense to allow yourself to be slapped, because you need a complex casual model to justify it. But echoing others in the thread, I'm not too sure and wish the author had written more on the topic or gave some references.