I'm more and more convinced that modelling impersonal forces as demons & deities substantially enhances understanding
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I bet an institutional review board would allow someone to annoy 20 undergrads in service of thishttps://twitter.com/stevenkaas/status/148884531917766656 …
this is the only thing I've found so far but it seems like people admit it's pedagogically irreplaceable http://cbc.arizona.edu/tpp/Teleology06.pdf …
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imagine trying to understand genes without imagining they're eternal & want to replicate
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as a teacher a huge part of the job is translating concepts into stories with characters who have motivations
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in physics the principle of least action is a teleological principle that is exactly equivalent to local description
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funny part is that this becomes confusing to people who have been physicspilled to only think mechanistically/locally
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