I mostly think the map is the territory.
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Oh… can you say more about that?
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people are bad at communicating. "aren't you just saying the map is not the territory" is often a proxy for a harder statement to make "I was confused about what the territory really was for a while", which there's some resistance to admitting.
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Not sure I follow—can you say more? How do these statements connect? In what way would one be confused about what the territory is, and how would one get unconfused?
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Have you read Borges’ short story “On Exactitude in Science”?
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Thanks, yes!
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Yes. I am especially baffled by people noting TMINTT as though this is some deep insight. It amounts to a smug denial of the most naive realism. OK, so not that. Now what?
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Feedback I got suggests this does come as a revelation for many people at a certain point in cognitive development; and then it takes a while to be ready to hear “and so, the next step is…”
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That Korzybskyan observation is incomplete without prescribing a solution: because vehicles for knowing unavoidably shape what is known, vehicles and contents fundamentally can't be pulled apart, so it is wise to employ different vehicles to converge on a less artifactual sense.
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I think "territory != map" generally arises as helpful in social contexts where the map is taken for granted and its implications ignored. It is synonymous with "pay attention to what our tools for knowing do to what we know".
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