There’s a critically important and correct idea in the vicinity of “the map is not the territory,” but I can’t find a non-trivial discussion
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the map is always a compression of the territory, lossy or otherwise
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Ah… yes… lossy, if the territory is any part of physical reality. So K-complexity is not a great analogy, I think
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Scientific inquiry is really about one part of the universe exploiting a temperature gradient to mimic another part
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So then we look at whether our theories/maps/memories are likely to be accurate/inaccurate on thermodynamic grounds
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