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Since the map describes itself as well, not just the parts of the world other than the map, and being able to reason about the relationship of the map and the world is crucial in the context of epistemic rationality, I object to including the "out there" part in the quoted sentence. The map in your head should accurately reflect the world, not just the part of the world that's "out there".
A bin trying to contain itself? I generally agree with your comment, but there are limits, no system can understand itself for that the very understanding would evade itself forever.
The "map" is NEVER comlete. So our map of the map is an incomplete map of the map. In engineering terms, the remarkable feature of the human mind's gigantically oversimplified map of the world both in it and around it is that it is as effective as it is in changing the world.
On the other hand, since we are not exposed to anything with a better map than ours, it is difficult to know what we are missing. Must be a cognitive bias or three in there as well.