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From: sarge@thirdi.UUCP (Sarge Gerbode)
Newsgroups: sci.misc,talk.philosophy.misc
Subject: Re: The nature of reality.
Message-ID: <373@thirdi.UUCP>
Date: 26 Mar 88 09:22:07 GMT
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Organization: Institute for Research in Metapsychology
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Keywords: reality credibility validity

In article <3558@dasys1.UUCP> gf@dasys1.UUCP (G Fitch) writes:

>[A] map is a map -- which means it's a map of something, if only
>a bigger map.  (It could be a map of itself, but that would be too
>boring, except to Douglas Hofstadter.)

Maybe it's an infinite series of maps of maps, or maybe at the bottom level, it
not a map but something one has created.  After all, we can also create things
that are not maps, like mental pictures, then map them.
-- 
"The map may not be the territory, but it's all we've got."

Sarge Gerbode
Institute for Research in Metapsychology
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