We must move beyond "carrying shells in our pockets" and utilize modern computational power to build a signaling system that respects the nonlinear physics of our survival.

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Photo of a graffiti on a wall in Berlin Kreuzberg with the inscription "The Map is Not The Territory".

"The Map is Not The Territory"

Sprayed on a building wall. From the Swiss Army proverb, "When the terrain disagrees with the map, trust the terrain". Especially true in Berlin.

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Better maps provide better guidance

A map is only as useful as it is a sufficiently detailed and accurate representation of the territory it’s analogous to. #TheMapIsNotTheTerritory.

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Many years ago studying GIS, I was taught that "the map is not the territory" meaning (as I understand it) that while an abstraction or simplification of a perceived real thing may be useful in some ways, it is not that thing and getting confused about that can mess you up in many ways. This […]

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…didn’t learn to drive until I was 26, and have driven half a million miles since…roadtrips are life and mind altering.

I gots the eagers for @sarahkendzior.bsky.social ‘s newest:

#WordsAreReality in #BrainFunction

or, we mostly think they are

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#GeneralSemantics:
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One #braincircuit to rule them all: #WordsAreReality

but,

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One #braincircuit to rule them all: #WordsAreReality

but,

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Reality is that #OrganizationStructure is needed, and needs to continually improve

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#GeneralSemantics #AlfredKorzybski

#BrainFunction generates perception

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Keep in mind, #TheMapIsNotTheTerritory #Korzybski #GeneralSemantics; but, good maps of the same territory will have a lot of similarity

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#CommunityIst = #Communist
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Keep in mind, #TheMapIsNotTheTerritory #Korzybski #GeneralSemantics; but, good maps of the same territory will have a lot of similarity

#SharedFacts #GeneralSystemsTheory #BrainFunction

Keep in mind, #TheMapIsNotTheTerritory #Korzybski #GeneralSemantics; but, good maps of the same territory will have a lot of similarity

#SharedFacts #GeneralSystemsTheory #BrainFunction

How Gödel’s Proof Works His incompleteness theorems destroyed the search for a ma...

www.quantamagazine.org/how-godels-incompletenes...

#TheMapIsNotTheTerritory #Korzybski #GeneralSemantics

#SharedFacts #Semantics #BrainFunction

How Gödel’s Proof Works His incompleteness theorems destroyed the search for a ma...

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#TheMapIsNotTheTerritory #Korzybski #GeneralSemantics

#SharedFacts #Semantics #BrainFunction

Keep in mind, #TheMapIsNotTheTerritory #Korzybski #GeneralSemantics; but, good maps of the same territory will have a lot of similarity

#SharedFacts #GeneralSystemsTheory #BrainFunction

Keep in mind, #TheMapIsNotTheTerritory #Korzybski #GeneralSemantics; but, good maps of the same territory will have a lot of similarity

#SharedFacts #GeneralSystemsTheory #BrainFunction

How Gödel’s Proof Works His incompleteness theorems destroyed the search for a ma...

www.quantamagazine.org/how-godels-incompletenes...

#TheMapIsNotTheTerritory #Korzybski #GeneralSemantics

#SharedFacts #Semantics #BrainFunction

Keep in mind, #TheMapIsNotTheTerritory #Korzybski #GeneralSemantics; but, good maps of the same territory will have a lot of similarity

#SharedFacts #GeneralSystemsTheory #BrainFunction

How Gödel’s Proof Works His incompleteness theorems destroyed the search for a ma...

www.quantamagazine.org/how-godels-incompletenes...

#TheMapIsNotTheTerritory #Korzybski #GeneralSemantics

#SharedFacts #Semantics #BrainFunction

Keep in mind, #TheMapIsNotTheTerritory #Korzybski #GeneralSemantics; but, good maps of the same territory will have a lot of similarity

#SharedFacts #GeneralSystemsTheory #BrainFunction