Now that you're done repeating yourself, would you care to try and answer any of the questions I asked to help you understand?
Question 1.
Does this prove that whatever conception they have for the entire forest (or entire world beyond it) is correct?
Question 2.
Said another way, can you be completely wrong about the shape of the entire world and still make it to the supermarket each day without any trouble? How many trips to the supermarket would it take before you realized (or were in any way affected) by your mistake?
THOUSANDS of times you leave your homes, and wind up where you wanted to be,
Right, just like the ants. You REALLY aren't following the analogy, are you?
I dunno how many times you're gonna leave the house and use SOLELY SPHERICAL COORDINATES to get where you're going,
The answer is most likely none. The vast majority of "ants" do not use spherical coordinates of any kind for travel.
You are fundamentally confusing maps with reality. Maps are tools for travel. They either work, or they don't. The conception of the ant can be completely wrong. As long as they get to the supermarket, it makes no impact to them. They continue to worship and believe their "coordinate system" blindly, and they never realize it's wrong because they are ants.
Now that your done repeating yourself, would you care to try and answer any of the questions I asked to help you understand?
Question 1.
Does this prove that whatever conception they have for the entire forest (or entire world beyond it) is correct?
Question 2.
Said another way, can you be completely wrong about the shape of the entire world and still make it to the supermarket each day without any trouble? How many trips to the supermarket would it take before you realized (or were in any way affected) by your mistake?
THOUSANDS of times you leave your homes, and wind up where you wanted to be,
Right, just like the ants. You REALLY aren't following the analogy, are you?
I dunno how many times you're gonna leave the house and use SOLELY SPHERICAL COORDINATES to get where you're going,
The answer is most likely none. The vast majority of "ants" do not use spherical coordinates of any kind for travel.
You are fundamentally confusing maps with reality. Maps are tools for travel. They either work, or they don't. The conception of the ant can be completely wrong. As long as they get to the supermarket, it makes no impact to them. They continue to worship and believe their "coordinate system" blindly, and they never realize it's wrong because they are ants.
Now that your done repeating yourself, would you care to try and answer any of the questions I asked to help you understand?
Question 1.
Does this prove that whatever conception they have for the entire forest (or entire world beyond it) is correct?
Question 2.
Said another way, can you be completely wrong about the shape of the entire world and still make it to the supermarket each day without any trouble? How many trips to the supermarket would it take before you realized (or were in any way affected) by your mistake?
THOUSANDS of times you leave your homes, and wind up where you wanted to be,
Right, just like the ants. You REALLY aren't following the analogy, are you?
I dunno how many times you're gonna leave the house and use SOLELY SPHERICAL COORDINATES to get where you're going,
The answer is most likely none. The vast majority of "ants" do not use spherical coordinates of any kind for travel.
You are fundamentally confusing maps with reality. Maps are tools for travel. They either work, or they don't. The conception of the ant can be completely wrong. As long as they get to the supermarket, it makes no impact to them. They continue to worship and believe their "coordinate system" blindly, and they never realize it's wrong because they are ants.