M. Y. Zuo comments on Do meta-memes and meta-antimemes exist? e.g. ‘The map is not the territory’ is also a map

[M. Y. Zuo]

How does one learn to recognize their first self-referential map? (Or if it’s instinctual, how did the first of our progenitors recognize the very first self-referential map?)

EDIT: I’m not even sure how it can be possible to deterimine if one’s maps are sufficiently self-referential. What do we compare it to?