Cannonball Trajectories Before Galileo Debunk the 'Human Intuition Needs No Training Data' Claim
DellAnnaLuca · x · 2026-10-10
Luca DellAnna rebuts the claim that "humans intuitively understand the world without needing others' images like AI does" by showing pre-Galileo cannonball trajectory diagrams — human 'intuition' was full of errors and equally depended on absorbing others' representations.
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