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As a teacher, I give you the means to understand our history... how many words does it take to understand?

An analogy is a means of conveying understanding through a shared experience, if you can't play poker then we don't have a shared experience and communication is probably less possible. You say impossible, while admitting the possibility, I have, and the word 'probably' leaps out and ties in with my analogy... It's a leap of faith that the next hand, will be the nuts; there's no way to be sure, even if you're the dealer... The thing your missing is, tomorrow is not the same as today and never will be, every day is a different hand with a different outcome. Your bluff is self evidently, not a fact... An analogy is a means of conveying understanding through a shared experience, if you can't play poker then we don't have a shared experience and communication is probably less possible. You say impossible, while admitting the possibility, I have, and the word 'probably' leaps out and ties in with my analogy... It's a leap of faith that the next hand, will be the nuts; there's no way to be sure, even if you're the dealer... The thing your missing is, tomorrow is not the same as today and never will be, every day is a different hand with a different outcome. Your bluff is self evidently, not a fact...

In a conversation yes/maybe, but how can I anticipate your question's?

The bottom line is, we all started in the same place; change the place and who knows what will happen. Maybe a space fareing 'alien' tomatoe... 😉

What did plants evolve from?

Way to miss the point, yet again; all life, that we know about, has evolved from plant's... Let me extend the poker analogy, every generation is a different hand and every hand is your chance to hit a royal flush, but if you don't hit it on the flop we get two more chances to tell the other player's. But unaware of your prejudice of me, don't worry you're not alone, most of us are unaware of our personal bias'.

What is the value of zero?

Some of us aren't lazy, some of us just aren't capable; I couldn't write an essay if my life depended on it. But I can string together a number of quotes with a coherent, if brief, explanation.

They/you are probably right, as thing's stand; but think of life as a more complicated version of Texas holdem poker. You're holding pocket aces, I'm holding ace and 2 of spades, and the flop is 10 and 7 of spades and an ace of hearts, as thing's stand you're holding the nuts, but there's 2 more card's to play. Let's ask the OP @Moontanman if I've answered his question? Exactly, he/she could wag their tail; but couldn't tell you a tale

Plagiarism isn't the same as cheating; cheating is buying an essay, plagiarism is using history to elaborate...

Being an scientist, you should say 'thank god for rational thought'...

I don't see why, it didn't prevent their ancestors from becoming us... 😉 How can you tell; did they wag their tale?

You'll be telling me that mice can't achieve space travel next. If that's not evidence...

Is a cheat not capable of understanding??? Or is it better to assume...

I only mentioned octopuses as an example of an intelligent alien species, that communicates differently to us and perceives differently to us, to demonstrate the difficulties of first contact. I very much doubt that Moon has had a meaningful conversation with them, even after all that study. I could have mentioned crow's, do you speak Crow, or are there any facts out there that says it's impossible for a crow to fly to the star's? Besides, dolphin's used to run around on land who knew they'd grow fin's... Perhaps if we were a little more humble, we'd learn how to live on this world, instead of dreaming of a better one; colonialism die's hard in the west...

Perhaps, but I'm not going to clame credit because I'm clearly not an exceptional teacher... Most student's just want an easy way to understand; a good teacher provides that, even if they copy it word for word...

Believe it or not, your not telling me anything I don't already know; I have google too... 😉 You seem to make a habbit of missing the point; I wonder what advantage a six legged mutant octopus would have, if only we hadn't eaten it (I'll leave you to google that, I can't be arsed). another strawman. 😏🥱 Sad. How is that a strawman? I haven't said you've said anything and your condescension is reasonable grounds to assume... No, but...

because I understand more...

The teacher shows a way to learn, the student may take some time to understand; why is 12 or 20 a waste?

No. I used octopuses, primarily, because you recognised their intelligence and I thought that similarity might overcome your assumption of authority; humanity is just part of, not more than (read my signature)...

A meteorologist can predict tomorrow's weather extremely accurately and next week's weather quite accurately and next year's weather not very accurately and next decade, not at all; and that's just part of the equation for evolution to predict the next branch of the tree, for an octopus. Please try to ignore the fact that it's me that posted this, and just read what's written.

The reason I'd love to play you at poker is, you wouldn't believe any bet I'd make/say because it's me making/saying it, no matter how often I win the pot. Your letting your bias/prejudice/excuses cloud your reason. However perfect you think our understanding of evolution is, it can predict the future in much the same way as a meteorologist can't (beyond next month). If I chose to write it, £-&+4 how could you tell?

When we understand the difference... 😉