in the beginning, there was only the territory. then they made maps and people learned to say, “the map is not the territory” later, the map becomes the territory. this is called “hyperreality” or “baudrillard”, and has been widely regarded as a bad move
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the most accurate map *is* the territory itself though hmmm
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This is true, though I wonder if we can speak of maps more alike and not alike from the territorypic.twitter.com/aiA5pNpGSd
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Yup. Exactly that. And all our task is to keep reducing that unlikeness factor. And lo! At 0, we'll have got to the underlying single objective universe - the "reality", called the "territory" in this thread. But of course, it is impossible to ascertain the unlikeness factor.
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