The disheveled surfaces may often say Rauschenberg, but Joseph Cornell's delicate precision is frequently
the more useful analogy.
Not exact matches
Of course, all
analogies are flawed, but they're
useful, they're how we think — and maybe there is another,
more accurate, and far
more telling,
analogy here.
Indeed, it would be interesting to model the deposition of pheromones
more directly: the
analogy with quantum mechanics is quite strong and techniques similar to Feynman path integrals — which superpose contributions from all possible paths — might be
useful.
Now — scale this up to the Earths biosphere — and tell me how realistically anyone can be sure of what the heck is going on with the climate — and
more importantly what / who is causing the observed changes......... I am not really much of a fan of
analogies, but when scale is involved, they can be quite
useful.
Aaron Street: Yeah, I guess rather than an
analogy to cars I think maybe a
more useful way of thinking about this is
more like an insurance sales person or even
more a financial advisor, wealth manager, where you are engaging them for the purpose of giving you advice and it turns out that their business model, though it involves giving advice, also includes things like selling you product and this isn't to denigrate law firm IT consultants, or tech consultants in general, it's just to make sure that people are aware of how their business model works and then to make sure that you're using them in a way that acknowledges that.