Cannonball trajectories before Galileo: a rebuttal that human intuition needs no external images
upperx_ · x · 2026-10-11
In a debate on whether humans have intuitive world understanding unlike AI, one user counters with a historical example: cannonball trajectory drawings before Galileo were all wrong. Human intuition, the argument goes, is itself corrected and shaped by exposure to images and representations produced by others — not fundamentally different from how AI learns from external data.