Some good points here, but anyone calling for a "metaphor-free theory" doesn't understand what a theory is https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer …
do you think that the theory of evolution is not literally true? @The_Lagrangian
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I obviously have no qualification to discuss evolution, or to comment on ways in which it might be "cartoon-ified"
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I think that the theory of evolution makes the claim that an evolution literally happened
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Let me be more careful. The claim that I don't like is "any theory that is not literally true is bad."
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Sometimes (all the time?) we progress only by running with an idea that is cartoonish and symbolic, but gives insight
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