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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 20 March 2015 09:29:51AM 0 points [-]

The flight analogy, or at least some variation of it, is pretty standard in my experience. (Incidentally, I heard a version of the analogy just recently, when I was reading through the slides of an old university course - see pages 15-19 here.)