The phrase “the map is not the territory” is not just a possibly conceivable map, it’s part of my map.
Thinking in terms of programming, it’s vaguely like I have a class instance s where one of the elements p is a pointer to the instance itself. So I can write
*(s.p) == s.
Or go further and write
*(*(s.p).p) == s.
As far as I want with only the tools offered to me by my current map.
The phrase “the map is not the territory” is not just a possibly conceivable map, it’s part of my map.
Thinking in terms of programming, it’s vaguely like I have a class instance s where one of the elements p is a pointer to the instance itself. So I can write *(s.p) == s. Or go further and write *(*(s.p).p) == s.
As far as I want with only the tools offered to me by my current map.
Did you intend to answer the above question? If so, I don’t quite follow your programming analogy.