1:11pm September 12, 2014

I first heard “The map is not the territory” in druggie-intellectual circles in the early nineties.

Meaning, you don’t need to be in a particular place, to hear ideas like that. They tend to crop up all over the place.  

Looking it up now this is what Wikipedia has to say about it:

“The expression "the map is not the territory” first appeared in print in a paper that Alfred Korzybski gave at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1931:^[1] In Science and Sanity, Korzybski acknowledges his debt to mathematician Eric Temple Bell, whose epigram “the map is not the thing mapped” was published in Numerology.“

So there’s nothing special about LW that contains that idea.  It’s a very popular idea in all kinds of intellectual circles.

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