Absolutely. Our brains work on abstract assumptions about the world - patterns, categories, and systems all help us to make sense of phenomena, but these same assumptions lead to mistakes. It's like when you draw a cube - in reality, it's a two dimensional array of intersecting lines, but your mind works in the third dimension, so it makes sense of it by seeing a cube. We talk about the sun "setting" and "rising" though we now know that that's inaccurate. Further, we anthropomorphize the sun as a powerful being, because all we know is how to be human. It's only common sense to extend that to other moving things. But common sense is flawed.
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Absolutely. Our brains work on abstract assumptions about the world - patterns, categories, and systems all help us to make sense of phenomena, but these same assumptions lead to mistakes. It's like when you draw a cube - in reality, it's a two dimensional array of intersecting lines, but your mind works in the third dimension, so it makes sense of it by seeing a cube. We talk about the sun "setting" and "rising" though we now know that that's inaccurate. Further, we anthropomorphize the sun as a powerful being, because all we know is how to be human. It's only common sense to extend that to other moving things. But common sense is flawed.