>At 10:23 PM +0300 8/6/07, Azamat wrote:
>>The citations of the day:
>>> As a human, I think that it should be possible to speak of
>>> one reality, as a computer scientist and engineers I see that it is not
>>> possible - and in my oppinion never will be possible - to reflect one
>>> reality in our systems, as all system are based on different
>>> conceptualizations.
>>
>>Reality is one as its true representation. Otherwise, your will have just
>>defective systems with ''different conceptualizations''.
>
>That reality is one does not imply there is one "true representation"
>of the one reality. (01)
Right. The key point that Azamat needs to grasp is that reality is
not a representation, even of itself. Korzybsky said it succinctly:
the map is not the territory. (02)
Pat
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