LEADER 05192nam 22007095 450 001 9910739440503321 005 20200704231040.0 010 $a3-319-72478-9 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-72478-2 035 $a(CKB)3840000000347822 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5295016 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-72478-2 035 $a(PPN)224638157 035 $a(EXLCZ)993840000000347822 100 $a20180213d2018 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Map and the Territory $eExploring the Foundations of Science, Thought and Reality /$fedited by Shyam Wuppuluri, Francisco Antonio Doria 205 $a1st ed. 2018. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (641 pages) 225 1 $aThe Frontiers Collection,$x1612-3018 311 $a3-319-72477-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. 327 $aForeword 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. 330 $aThe 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. . 410 0$aThe Frontiers Collection,$x1612-3018 606 $aPhysics 606 $aKnowledge, Theory of 606 $aScience?Philosophy 606 $aScience?History 606 $aPhilosophy 606 $aLogic, Symbolic and mathematical 606 $aHistory and Philosophical Foundations of Physics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P29000 606 $aEpistemology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E13000 606 $aPhilosophical and Historical Foundations of Science$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E49000 606 $aPopular Science in Philosophy$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q21000 606 $aMathematical Logic and Foundations$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/M24005 615 0$aPhysics. 615 0$aKnowledge, Theory of. 615 0$aScience?Philosophy. 615 0$aScience?History. 615 0$aPhilosophy. 615 0$aLogic, Symbolic and mathematical. 615 14$aHistory and Philosophical Foundations of Physics. 615 24$aEpistemology. 615 24$aPhilosophical and Historical Foundations of Science. 615 24$aPopular Science in Philosophy. 615 24$aMathematical Logic and Foundations. 676 $a501 702 $aWuppuluri$b Shyam$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aDoria$b Francisco Antonio$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910739440503321 996 $aThe Map and the Territory$93552708 997 $aUNINA