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The Map and the Territory = Exploring the Foundations of Science, Thought and Reality /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Map and the Territory/ edited by Shyam Wuppuluri, Francisco Antonio Doria.
Reminder of title:	Exploring the Foundations of Science, Thought and Reality /
other author:	Wuppuluri, Shyam.
Description:	XXIII, 641 p. 28 illus.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Physics. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72478-2
ISBN:	9783319724782

The Map and the Territory = Exploring the Foundations of Science, Thought and Reality /
The Map and the TerritoryExploring the Foundations of Science, Thought and Reality /[electronic resource] :edited by Shyam Wuppuluri, Francisco Antonio Doria. - 1st ed. 2018. - XXIII, 641 p. 28 illus.online resource. - The Frontiers Collection,1612-3018. - The Frontiers Collection,.

Foreword by Sir Roger Penrose -- Preface to the Volume -- Acknowledgements -- Editors' Biographies -- Part I: Philosophy -- Part II: Theoretical Physics -- Part III: Mathematics/Computer Science -- Part IV: Biology/Cognitive Science -- Part V: Other Perspectives -- Afterword by Dagfinn Follesdal.

The Map/Territory distinction is a foundational part of the scientific method and, in fact, underlies all of thought, and even reality itself. This fascinating and fundamental topic is addressed here by some of the world’s leading thinkers and intellectual giants, whose accessible essays cover six and more fields of endeavor. It is imperative to distinguish the Map from the Territory when analyzing any subject, yet we often mistake the map for the territory; the meaning for the reference; a computational tool for what it computes. Representations are so handy and tempting that we often end up committing the category error of over-associating the representation with the thing it represents, so much so that the distinction between them is lost. This error, whose roots frequently lie in pedagogy, generates a plethora of paradoxes/confusions which hinder a proper understanding of the subject. What are wave functions? Fields? Forces? Numbers? Sets? Classes? Operators? Functions? Alphabets and Sentences? Are they a part of our map (theory/representation)? Or do they actually belong to the territory (reality)? A researcher, like a cartographer, clothes (or creates?) the reality by stitching together numerous co-existing maps. Is there a reality out there apart from these maps? How do these various maps interact or combine with each other to produce a coherent reality that we interact with? Or do they not? Does our brain use its own internal maps to facilitate the “physicist/mathematician” in us to construct, in turn, the maps about the external realm? If so, what is the nature of these internal maps? Are there meta-maps? Evolution definitely fences in our perception and thereby our ability to construct maps, revealing to us only those aspects beneficial for our survival. But to what extent? Is there a way out of this metaphorical Plato’s cave erected around us by the nature? Alfred Korzybski once remarked “The Map is not the Territory”: Join us in this journey to explore the many questions, concepts and interpretations that this claim engenders. .

ISBN: 9783319724782

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-72478-2doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

564049
Physics.

LC Class. No.: QC6.9

Dewey Class. No.: 530.01

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