The name of the color of the sky is an agreed upon label that aids communication. The inability to discern a blue sky from a night sky, or a green square from a blue square, is simply a problem with either your sense organs or the processing capabilities of your brain. The map–territory relation is a metaphor used to highlight the fact that reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
While I was writing this post, I changed where I was going with the map/territory thing, and that led to me confusing myself. I’m not sure what I was thinking originally, other than that it seemed quite significant at the time.
The name of the color of the sky is an agreed upon label that aids communication. The inability to discern a blue sky from a night sky, or a green square from a blue square, is simply a problem with either your sense organs or the processing capabilities of your brain. The map–territory relation is a metaphor used to highlight the fact that reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
While I was writing this post, I changed where I was going with the map/territory thing, and that led to me confusing myself. I’m not sure what I was thinking originally, other than that it seemed quite significant at the time.