korrents

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The territory never gets onto the map: representation always filters it out, so the mental world is only maps of maps.

Drawn from what Gregory Bateson said

What this subject means

mental models Thinking tools borrowed across disciplines: inversion, second-order effects, circles of competence, probabilities, incentives.

The map is not the territory

Which mental models help you think better?under our view: The map is not the territory: every model leaves things out

What Gregory Bateson actually said

  1. Gregory Bateson English anthropologist and social scientist (1904 to 1980)…
    The territory never gets in at all. Always the process of representation will filter it out so that the mental world is only maps of maps of maps, ad infinitum.

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