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 …
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Replying to @The_Lagrangian
This was actually really infuriating to read.
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Replying to @gravity_levity
yeah, it's especially bad because he gets a few things slightly right but then most of everything else completely wrong
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Replying to @The_Lagrangian
@Plinz I think I was most aggravated by a generalized attack on theory. As if all theory is bad b/c it's not literally true1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @gravity_levity
do you think that the theory of evolution is not literally true?
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Replying to @Plinz @The_Lagrangian
I obviously have no qualification to discuss evolution, or to comment on ways in which it might be "cartoon-ified"
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Replying to @gravity_levity
I think that the theory of evolution makes the claim that an evolution literally happened @The_Lagrangian
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