"The map is not the territory" (second on Bateson's list of important axioms)
a principle "made famous by Alfred Korzybski"
"Korzybski's statement assets that in all thought or perception or communication about perception, there is a transformation, a coding, between the report and the thing reported" (30)
> from Gregory Bateson's Mind and Nature (1979)
> tagged with #reality, #communication, #perception
> created July 5, 2024 at 8:27:42 AM
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