What does "The Map is Not the Territory" mean? An abstraction derived from something or our reaction to it is not the thing itself

·      Exploring the mental map/conceptual overlay that is laid upon “reality” (territory)

·      How I believe things and myself are (map) and how it is actually experienced (territory)

·      What can happen when the map is seen AS the territory: limitation, confusion, seeking, etc.

·      We may live in concepts of success and happiness but concepts don’t satify

·      Exploring this apparent discrepancy can reveal that the two are inseparable and in this realization they both collapse into a freedom where concepts are used for their utility with the knowing that they are not the actuality. 

Quotes:

“The menu is not the meal” - Alan Watts

“All models are wrong but some are useful” - George Box

Map-Territoy Relation - Alfred Korzybski

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