“The world is not an illusion,” said Alfred Korzbyski, ‘it is an abstraction.’ You may know Korzbyski for another famous maxim, “the map is not the territory.” Jorge Luis Borges took this idea to its most absurd lengths by imagining in his story “On Exactitude in Science” a map that corresponded in size and scale at every point with the territory.

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