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It's kind of like saying learning to jump really high is the first step to getting to the moon.
by ballenf 5y ago
It's kind of like saying learning to jump really high is the first step to getting to the moon.
- pfdietz 5y agoOr like saying "look, the monkey can sometimes make small words appear when it bangs on the keys of this typewriter. This tells us something about the origins of novels."
- SavantIdiot 5y agoA better analogy, but it still can be steered toward, "...without a Writer. This is why there is a Writer." Capital intentional.
- gliptic 5y agoLearning how writing was invented is certainly a step towards understanding the origin of novels.
- FridayoLeary 5y agostudying the behaviour of a monkey when introduced to a typewriter doesn't. Studying the formation of a few molecules in a controlled environment hardly explains how living forms came to exist.
- gliptic 5y agoIf you never learn where a few molecules came from, how could you possibly make progress on the problem?
- csee 5y agoThis is an example of why analogies and metaphors make clear thinking difficult. They're easy to think up - anyone can find some abstract similarity between X and absurd thing Y - but there is no substance there since the two things being compared are actually very different beyond that abstraction.
- 1_player 5y agoCertainly. It would help to understand gravity, which is absolutely crucial to flying to the Moon.
- AutumnCurtain 5y agoAlso helps with an immediate understanding of ballistics and escape velocity