We get around this in part by not understanding (or at least remembering our understanding of) many of the basics. Such as this guy who looked things up in a te

We get around this in part by not understanding (or at least remembering our understanding of) many of the basics. Such as this guy who looked things up in a textbook: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34236889 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34236889 A bunch of blind people could theoretically construct a model of an elephant, if they work together well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant