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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Funny, in mathematics the map and the territory are sorta the same thing.
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.
