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The argument comes as a thought experiment: If you handed me an arbitrary object and asked me to number its parts, I'd probably default to one the above convent
by aendruk 7y ago
The argument comes as a thought experiment: If you handed me an arbitrary object and asked me to number its parts, I'd probably default to one the above conventions. This outcome is incidental, but a predictable consequence of my cultural background and individual experiences. It would be surprising for me to make up something different.
The insight offered by the article is that they way we ended up with something different is that, amending the hypothetical, the object was actually introduced upside-down.
- Dylan16807 7y agoSo you're arguing that clockwise is intuitive but counterclockwise isn't? (In that case it's confusing that you said "other" conventions that could reasonably be applied. If you say "here's two other cats they could have picked", that makes it sound like what they picked was a cat.) I don't think I agree with that. Especially since if you hand me something and I start counting left to right, oops I probably went counterclockwise.