a map of the world, which it definitely isn't, and it also matters who asks questions and how we ask questions to that data, and that is largely overlooked, and that's why we make so many mistakes. You're saying it is a map, it is not the world, or it is not a map? It's a map, but it's not of the world. Exactly. It's a map of some part of the world, but not the entire thing. It's interesting that you say that because another thing I was thinking about while reading your book in preparation for this interview is the distinction between the map and the territory, and I do think that we do suffer from this conditioning increasingly in a digital world where we've mistaken the map for the territory. So I want to get into that, and we will, but before we do that, I want to ask you something because I am curious. You described it very well. You are a very philosophical person, and you found a way to apply philosophical principles and ideas and thinking, and introspection and a certain (6/57)
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