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To: exDemMom
" After all, they perform feats of advanced mathematics whenever they fly from one place to another and land perfectly at the spot they wanted. "

You need to make the distinction between knowing how and knowing that. The wasp knows how how to execute a perfect turn-to-base and final approach, but presumably is ignorant of the flight equations making possible its performance or knowing that the Bernoulli effect is involved, etc.

28 posted on 05/08/2019 7:56:15 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: steve86
The wasp knows how how to execute a perfect turn-to-base and final approach, but presumably is ignorant of the flight equations making possible its performance or knowing that the Bernoulli effect is involved, etc.

I think that was kind of my point. The ability to use advanced mathematics is innate, but only humans have devised a system to represent these innate functions symbolically. And not all humans are intelligent enough to grasp the symbolism.

30 posted on 05/08/2019 8:06:54 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: steve86

Exactly.


31 posted on 05/08/2019 8:30:43 PM PDT by Fedora
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