That is an interesting and potentially fruitful analogy. One natural notion of “long distance” would be carrying over into many future paradigms, through many paradigm shifts. The Telephone Principle would then say that any principle will either eventually carry over arbitrarily perfectly through each shift (possibly after adjusting a bit in the first few paradigm shifts), or will eventually be completely lost/abandoned.
That is an interesting and potentially fruitful analogy. One natural notion of “long distance” would be carrying over into many future paradigms, through many paradigm shifts. The Telephone Principle would then say that any principle will either eventually carry over arbitrarily perfectly through each shift (possibly after adjusting a bit in the first few paradigm shifts), or will eventually be completely lost/abandoned.