I knew I was going to stay on LessWrong when I read the conceptually & rhetorically brilliant:
Ignorance exists in the map, not in the territory. If I am ignorant about a phenomenon, that is a fact about my own state of mind, not a fact about the phenomenon itself. A phenomenon can seem mysterious to some particular person. There are no phenomena which are mysterious of themselves. To worship a phenomenon because it seems so wonderfully mysterious, is to worship your own ignorance.
Which could be perhaps reduced to something like:
Your thoughts are your map; reality is the territory. Watch your step.
and
Mystery is always in the mind, never in the matter.
I don’t think these are all that great but I would love a snappy way to express this central insight.
I knew I was going to stay on LessWrong when I read the conceptually & rhetorically brilliant:
Which could be perhaps reduced to something like:
and
I don’t think these are all that great but I would love a snappy way to express this central insight.