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Of course, of course. I meant 'image of the world' in the broader sense — sort of like the "OK" from Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore. I didn't mean to imply t
by state 13y ago
Of course, of course. I meant 'image of the world' in the broader sense — sort of like the "OK" from Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore.
I didn't mean to imply that they're purposefully ignoring things, but that it's difficult to create a methodology for mapping the world that doesn't ignore features of it — either by accident or as a rule.
- roywiggins 13y agoArguably, such a methodology would be unusable anyway: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonini's_paradox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonini's_paradox
- maxerickson 13y agostate is talking about something more like fully capturing a limited set of the features that are visible at some given scale.
- pkinsky 13y agomap != territory is the traditional phrasing.