Posted: Apr 07, 2017 8:57 pm
Corkey wrote:"The map is not the territory." - Alfred Korzybski It's a gateway if you choose to use it.
A printed map of the Earth manifests in the arrangement of multicolored inks on a piece of paper, but the map is not ink and paper. A digital map manifests in the arrangements of contrasting pixels on a computer screen, but the map is not the pixels or the screen. "The map is not the territory," it's not a metaphor. Simply put, the software is not the hardware.
I don't think I agree with this, and I'm fairly sure it's not what the quote means.
A map being distinct from the territory does not mean that a map is not ink and paper (or patterns of pixels depending on the specific map).