That is, it’s near impossible to not have an accurate model of Newton’s Laws, mountains, and water in order to survive
People managed without an accurate model of Newton’s laws for most of human history.
People do occasionally survive some pretty severe memetic immunity failures. One of my own recent ancestors was a snake handler.
Well, they had a decent approximation of Newton’s laws, at least. Otherwise they would struggle to hit things with thrown rocks.
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People managed without an accurate model of Newton’s laws for most of human history.
People do occasionally survive some pretty severe memetic immunity failures. One of my own recent ancestors was a snake handler.
Well, they had a decent approximation of Newton’s laws, at least. Otherwise they would struggle to hit things with thrown rocks.