athmwiji comments on Angry Atoms - Less Wrong

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Comment author: athmwiji 31 March 2008 09:52:14PM 0 points [-]

"The order of inference exists in your map, not in the territory."

I agree completely. I would however say that "atoms" and "lightning" as concepts must categorically be part of a map, not part of the territory. There is something atom like about the territory in so far as the consequence of atoms in our maps is consistent with our experiences which come from the territory, but the similarity ends there. I would not be willing to conclude from this that the territory actually implements atoms in the same way that they are implemented in our maps, and i think to do so would be a mind projection fallacy. As such i doubt that atoms as we understand them are actually part of the territory.