The Map Is Not The Territory
The Map Is Not The Territory. The territory no longer precedes the map, nor does it survive it. The 'map' is our understanding of the 'territory' of reality, and we must be careful to remember that the map is not the territory! This was expressed by Korzybski's most famous premise, "the map is not the territory".
Our perception of the world is being generated by our brain and can be considered as a 'map' of reality written in neural patterns.
Interpretations may or may not be accurate. That's because they are reductions of what they represent. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.The Map and the Territory is nothing less than an effort to update our forecasting conceptual grid.
The map is not the territory.
I know you dislike Ed because of how he acted in that meeting, but you don't actually know him.
The Map Is Not the Territory Flashcards The phrase was coined by US semanticist Alfred Korzybski. Note that this premise uses the phrase "is not", a form of "to be"; this and many other examples show that he did not intend to abandon "to be" as such. "The map is not the territory" is a phrase coined by the Polish-American philosopher and engineer Alfred Korzybski.
That's because they are reductions of what they represent.
Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Alfred Korzybski summarized this principle in the analogy: "The map is not the area." Because the map is not the territory, maps are only ever representing other maps, which at first parses as an existential nightmare — the ever-escaping objective reality — but is really an. Book excerpt: This innovative book is an interaction based on a series of interviews between the artist Ralph Rumney and the writer.