I think when dealing with physical modeling of this sort, obviously we're going to need lots of examples to get a full enough picture of reality. I play ping-pong, so I have to be really cognizant of this, as my mind has to pattern match the way the ball works hundreds of times in a game.
But if I truly had to see the pattern on every single angle, every single type of spin, every different paddle, every different table, every different room, then the sheer combinatorial complexity would make ping pong impossible to improve at. Talking about and coming up with insights on better play would also be impossible.
It's relatively easy to break the symbolic continuities that the brain stores with new types of inputs. That doesn't mean those symbolic continuities don't actually exist and that the brain will constantly seek them out.
But if I truly had to see the pattern on every single angle, every single type of spin, every different paddle, every different table, every different room, then the sheer combinatorial complexity would make ping pong impossible to improve at. Talking about and coming up with insights on better play would also be impossible.
It's relatively easy to break the symbolic continuities that the brain stores with new types of inputs. That doesn't mean those symbolic continuities don't actually exist and that the brain will constantly seek them out.