No, religion it's just a myth. It has no place on science.
We don't discuss Zeus on Metereologycs. We don't place
Mars between Ukraine and Russia. Stop putting your ignorance about cosmology with your twisted and ridiculous beliefs on how the universe was created.
The obvious position is that people can believe whatever they want. The contrarian position is that religion is bad. The meta-contrarian take is that religion is good. It seems the way that you are comparing arguments here is based on the subtleness of the effect rather than its magnitude.
> Which suggests that our bodies “know” calculus even if our minds do not.
No, it does not. If a player's body "knew calculus", it wouldn't occasionally get fooled or miss a shot. Just like optical illusions give us a clue that "seeing" is not ray tracing or other optical math, getting fooled by a ping pong ball gives us a clue that the player's body does not know calculus.
Agreed. The two arcs illusion shows "seeing" isn't even a very good ruler, let alone ray tracer. And there are lots of illusions that demonstrate in the right context, our eyes aren't even all that good at judging completely different colours. We don't instinctively know that sound and light are very similar things, but at very different wavelengths.
We know we can let go of magnetic letters on the fridge, and they won't fall off. That doesn't mean our bodies instinctively understand the quantum interaction that makes that happen. Yet there is solid math used to model how strong the magnet needs to be in order to hold the plastic letter in place on a vertical metallic plane. The non-mathematical person can detect whether a magnet is too strong or too weak for the purpose without at all understanding the math or science behind it.
Math is a good predictor of things we can model with it. That doesn't mean humans in general necessarily understand the model in a mathematical context. We have expectations based on experimentation (or training) and observation, which is a totally different thing.
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We don't discuss Zeus on Metereologycs. We don't place Mars between Ukraine and Russia. Stop putting your ignorance about cosmology with your twisted and ridiculous beliefs on how the universe was created.
The obvious position is that people can believe whatever they want. The contrarian position is that religion is bad. The meta-contrarian take is that religion is good. It seems the way that you are comparing arguments here is based on the subtleness of the effect rather than its magnitude.
No, it does not. If a player's body "knew calculus", it wouldn't occasionally get fooled or miss a shot. Just like optical illusions give us a clue that "seeing" is not ray tracing or other optical math, getting fooled by a ping pong ball gives us a clue that the player's body does not know calculus.
We know we can let go of magnetic letters on the fridge, and they won't fall off. That doesn't mean our bodies instinctively understand the quantum interaction that makes that happen. Yet there is solid math used to model how strong the magnet needs to be in order to hold the plastic letter in place on a vertical metallic plane. The non-mathematical person can detect whether a magnet is too strong or too weak for the purpose without at all understanding the math or science behind it.
Math is a good predictor of things we can model with it. That doesn't mean humans in general necessarily understand the model in a mathematical context. We have expectations based on experimentation (or training) and observation, which is a totally different thing.