Gregory Bateson
English anthropologist and social scientist (1904 to 1980) who worked across cybernetics, systems theory and psychiatry; author of Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972).
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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.
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.
generalsemantics.orgSaid c. 1970This on 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.
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.
The Map Is Not the Territory (Institute of General Semantics, quoting Korzybski, 1933, and Bateson, 1970) Said c. 1970
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