All maps are wrong; the map is never the territory. All statements are hedged. All signs can do is point, never indicate. People are not special. People are hu

All maps are wrong; the map is never the territory. All statements are hedged. All signs can do is point, never indicate. People are not special. People are humans; humans are primates; primates are animals. If genes are like blueprints for constructing life-supporting structures, then memes are like blueprints for thinking viral ideas. All computation is symbolic. ...That should be enough to let people skip all of the philosophy, at a first pass. The main problem is that folks don't actually absorb these slogans on their own; the slogans require support from a library of lore and learnings. It is obvious, once one's mind has the right scaffolding, to see that everything and everybody is wrong about everything, but actually setting up that scaffolding is unique to every different reader. I've found that I, too, need to write a fictional story set inside a fictional universe akin to ours, if I want to communicate certain non-fictional abstract mathematical ideas. People cannot grasp some concepts without some sort of path which leads to the concept, and humanity paves those paths with words.