These metaphors strike me as a fallacy. When the best available tech was maps, the way we imagined earth was as a map. (i.e. flat) When we had telescopes and

These metaphors strike me as a fallacy. When the best available tech was maps, the way we imagined earth was as a map. (i.e. flat) When we had telescopes and learned about the solar system, we had to be at the center of it. Now in the age of digitalization, theories about the universe being some digital construct are gaining momentum. As we begin to understand neural networks, this headline pops up. While it's great we make progress towards understanding how the universe works, I have my reservations about these comparisons and and the point they serve in this time and age. Shouldn't we move past this sort of thing and remove a bias as obvious as this from attempts to understand the world around us?