Dan's Brain

The Map is Not the Territory

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The map we have of reality (any reality or subject or matter) is not reality itself.1 The model we have of something is a simplification2 useful for ease of communication and study, memorization. The territory is not as simple and we choose to ignore part of it, give it for granted.

  1. what happens when we forget this? Wishful thinking ↩︎

  2. here - Richard Feynman on this concept ↩︎