This is my first comment on this site, so if I’m missing particular norms, please let me know.
I understand why this was done, but it is amusing to me that in order to describe what “contact with the territory” looks like, you must use map-like terms such as “arm”, “finger”, and “hand”.
I was going to recommend that you could qualify all of these terms, but I realized that this would likely not be needed for most readers; hopefully most people will understand, after having reading the previous essays, that by “hand”, you’re taking advantage of our preconceptions and built-in maps in order to describe your thought.
(I also realize that this has been done elsewhere out of necessity in the essays as well—it just particularly stood out to me in this one section.)
This is my first comment on this site, so if I’m missing particular norms, please let me know.
I understand why this was done, but it is amusing to me that in order to describe what “contact with the territory” looks like, you must use map-like terms such as “arm”, “finger”, and “hand”.
I was going to recommend that you could qualify all of these terms, but I realized that this would likely not be needed for most readers; hopefully most people will understand, after having reading the previous essays, that by “hand”, you’re taking advantage of our preconceptions and built-in maps in order to describe your thought.
(I also realize that this has been done elsewhere out of necessity in the essays as well—it just particularly stood out to me in this one section.)
it sounds like you understand a core component of why this sequence was so bloody difficult to write.