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A key insight or dreconceptualization
„Naturalna przewaga”

You see a Key Concept, one of the most important principles according to which the world in general and the world of people operate.

These concepts are referenced throughout the Patterns series, including the Patterns for Victory series and Us or Them!. A concise summary and two or three key examples are provided at the beginning of each volume. See other key reconceptualizations.

A key concept in a book of the series „Patterns”

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A natural advantage

In the short story "Natural Advantage," Lester del Rey describes humanity's contact with a race that evolution had endowed with an additional sense. This sense enabled them to perceive physical phenomena invisible and counterintuitive to humans. Thanks to this natural advantage, these aliens came to Earth, not the other way around. The aliens felt sorry for the Earthlings, whose senses were so limited, and therefore unable to travel between the stars.

But endowed with hyperspatial technology, a parting gift, the Earthlings set to work. Soon, to the aliens' astonishment, an Earth-based spacecraft appeared in the skies of their home planet, powered by hyperspatial technology so advanced that the aliens could only dream of it.

In this masterfully crafted story, it was the Earthlings who had the natural advantage – the lack of this additional sense. This forced humans to construct mathematical tools: theories, calculations, and mental models. They leaned on this mental apparatus like a blind man with a white cane, as Stanisław Lem so graphically—and accurately—described (p. 202). As a result, they developed an advanced theory and practice for which their cosmic friends had no real impetus.

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