Maps are not where the territory ends, but where our imaginations begin to be domesticated. – Bayo Akomolafe

A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.

— Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity, p. 58.

The map is not the territory, the word is not the thing it describes. Whenever the map is confused with the territory, a ‘semantic disturbance’ is set up in the organism. The disturbance continues until the limitation of the map is recognized.

— Alfred Korzybski

• Don't become a map narcissist
• Ideally a good map is good-true-and-beautiful
• Become your own cartographer of reality
• questions
  • How to become a good Mapper? How is Mapping done?
    • mental-models
    • reasoning
  • How obvious to you is this proposition?
• All Models are wrong
  • http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/AllModelsAreWrong

aka

• "The menu is not the meal" from person.alan-watts

See

• the-complete-stance

Links

• Alfred Korzybski
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation
• Brain perspective
• A Model of Reality Is Not Reality
• [mental-model perspective](https://twitter.com/ShaneAParrish/status/1321804061289701376)
• Meditation on this concept
• Maps, the territory, and meta-rationality
• Book I: Map and Territory | Rationality: From AI to Zombies tags.to-read