Common dismissal: “Aren’t you just saying that ‘the map is not the territory’?” Attempting to clarify, I find myself baffled. Who ever thought the map WAS the territory? (No one.) What work was denying this supposed to do?
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Of course, thinking the map might well be the territory is often a good thing! AKA, making predictions in science. Famously, Einstein not taking his own theory, general relativity, seriously enough, and using it to predict the expanding universe.
Funny, in mathematics the map and the territory are sorta the same thing.
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And in parts of theoretical physics - when you have a really good theory - they can be hard to tell apart. Lots of quantum computing theory has been theory for 30 years! Easy to mistake map for territory.
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I don’t see why math is special here...doesn’t the fact that there’s always a broader, ‘more fundamental’ level to be uncovered mean that our representation isn’t equivalent to ‘reality’?
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