Random Analogies

"To use a toaster we have to have already learnt many basic skills and conventions. That it needs a power supply, how to plug it in and into what - what the actual function is - If I was a 'man from Mars" and was told this is a toaster it makes toast - I would look at it and say, perhaps in Martian - OK make toast - I may prod it and I may kick it, but the result would not be toast."

The video describes this shift very clearly.

"The URI professor said that large-scale deep ocean circulation is like a global conveyor belt moving warm and cool waters in consistent patterns around the world. But, he added, global warming has the potential to decrease or even shut down this conveyor belt, which would have important consequences for the Earth's climate and marine ecosystems."