This is the basis. The imitation of complex skills is what we call culture and is the basis of civilization.

The same principles, the same dynamics, the same organization is at work in all of these, including us, and it can scale over a range of 100 million in size.

I think you need to separate the basics of what you're trying to do from how it gets done and the machinery of how it gets done and automation allows you to make that separation.

So just because paper was invented before computers, it doesn't necessarily mean you get more to the basics of the subject by using paper instead of a computer to teach mathematics.

Well, another issue people bring up is somehow that hand calculating procedures So if you go through lots of examples, you can get the answer, you can understand how the basics of the system work better.