The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography saw the vast Map to be Useless and permitted it to decay and fray under the Sun and winters. “ The Map and the Territory is a model of expositional clarity, with complex and recondite matters made accessible to the lay reader.
Operationally, somebody went out with a retina or a measuring stick and made representations which were then put on paper. The Map and the Territory is a meditation on the relationship between art and the world it seeks to depict, but it is much more besides.
Fake Beliefs C. Noticing Confusion D. Mysterious Answers Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or substance. Exactly two years to the day I started writing this post I published Map and Territory’s most popular post of all time, “Doxa, Episteme… G Gordon Worley III Nov 20, 2019 You see? The map–territory relation describes the relationship between an object and a representation of that object, as in the relation between a geographical territory and a map of it.
The book should be must reading for anyone interested in the way our financial markets work—and sometimes fail to do so." The tale is the map that is the territory.The development of electronic media blurs the line between map and territory by allowing for the Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. To that end I’d like…Exactly two years to the day I started writing this post I published Map and Territory’s most popular post of all time, “Doxa, Episteme…Minimization of prediction error as a foundation for human values in AI alignmentI’ve mentioned in posts twice (and previously in several comments) that I’m excited about predictive coding, specifically the idea that…I occasionally run across lines of reasoning that depend on or favor the position that value drift should be avoided. Polish-American scientist and philosopher Alfred Korzybski remarked that "the map is not the territory" and that "the word is not the thing", encapsulating his view that an abstraction derived from something, or a reaction to it, is not the thing itself. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless. The territory never gets in at all. RE the title: The “map” refers to one’s mental model or belief network, whilst the “territory” is the reality itself — the thing we are trying to model. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of the Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; and in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography.With this quotation of Josiah Royce, Borges describes a further conundrum of when the map is contained within the territory, you are led into The inventions of philosophy are no less fantastic than those of art: One describes a tale best by telling the tale. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: A The fundamental trade-off between accuracy and usability of a map, particularly in the context of modelling, is known as The indicatrices demonstrate the difference between the 3D world as seen from space and 2D projections of its surfaceRene Magritte's surrealism to be to illustrate the point that, "perception always intercedes between reality and ourselves". See for example, p. 15–16 What is on the paper map is a representation of what was in the retinal representation of the man who made the map; and as you push the question back, what you find is an infinite regress, an infinite series of maps.