Because it's literally what I'm responding to: "You can build a pretty good mental model of flight with either simplified mechanism" For computational models,

Because it's literally what I'm responding to: "You can build a pretty good mental model of flight with either simplified mechanism" For computational models, neither of these are great starting points. When I last looked, finite element methods were where the action was. And if you don't apply the same to quantum -- looking for intuition -- you'll have a bad time. Quantum computing algorithms came from human insight.