map territory

active draft. a technical sketch. general, before special —alignment, before distraction

“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

map territory v.1

1. A map is aspectual abstraction, and represents territory
   1. An aspect refers to both a heuristic, and result of applied heuristic, to isolate and insulate arbitrarily defined characteristics, of arbitrarily scoped phenomena, from a bulk of contextually or circumstantially redundant phenomenal complexity
   2. Representation is abstraction, and abstraction represents ^[ Revised @ v.2 ]
2. Territory includes all universal phenomena, inclusive of maps
3. When a map is phenomenologically coherent and circumstantially aligned, it is momentarily, sufficiently synonymous with the territory it represents
4. A map aligns

musings

• All ideas are maps of territory

  • Scientific understandings are distinct maps of the territory of our universe, which includes all universal phenomena

• The map territory distinction, is a mutually exclusive heuristic

  • The map territory distinction is a heuristic to conceptually distinguish between representation and represented