Your mind is either inside reality or outside reality. If your mind is outside reality, and if a second mind also outside of reality could observe both your mind and reality, the second mind could make a statement about how much your mind does and does not match reality.
It is not the case that your mind or a second mind is outside of reality. Therefore you lack certainty about how much your mind matches reality. Your mind might match the not-mind majority part of reality without your knowing. An analogy of this from Karl Popper is standing in an unfamiliar city looking at a map to find a destination without knowing you are at the destination you seek.
The problems of maps (also from Popper) is a 1:1 map is too large to be useful and anything less is incomplete. Thus a map is a useful tool and one of many tools. The ability to note when a map is inaccurate or incomplete or in some way objectionable is another skill. To search for better maps, another skill. To preserve maps that work to some degree, another skill.
Thank you, these are useful ideas for a much more expanded article on Map and Territory! We already have some folks at InIn who are working up ideas for an expansion blog post that deals with M+T as such, I’ll point them to your comment.
Your mind is either inside reality or outside reality. If your mind is outside reality, and if a second mind also outside of reality could observe both your mind and reality, the second mind could make a statement about how much your mind does and does not match reality.
It is not the case that your mind or a second mind is outside of reality. Therefore you lack certainty about how much your mind matches reality. Your mind might match the not-mind majority part of reality without your knowing. An analogy of this from Karl Popper is standing in an unfamiliar city looking at a map to find a destination without knowing you are at the destination you seek.
The problems of maps (also from Popper) is a 1:1 map is too large to be useful and anything less is incomplete. Thus a map is a useful tool and one of many tools. The ability to note when a map is inaccurate or incomplete or in some way objectionable is another skill. To search for better maps, another skill. To preserve maps that work to some degree, another skill.
Thank you, these are useful ideas for a much more expanded article on Map and Territory! We already have some folks at InIn who are working up ideas for an expansion blog post that deals with M+T as such, I’ll point them to your comment.