(semi-serious but not well thought out question) If humans didn't evolve with opposable thumbs, we wouldn't have a concept of "handedness" in the traditional sense. How would we describe coordinate systems? And CP-violating decays? Is this an Anthropic bias?
We still would have a concept of left and right .. we would just say “left neutrino” instead of left handed
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I suppose that is true, but I wonder if there is a "better" but "missing" description of nature out there that is hidden from us because we don't have "thumbs". A missing language... this idea needs work...
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I think we often can have vocabulary and hence conceptual limitations if that’s what you mean
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