In the traditional map vs territory parlance, the perfectly correct map is an identical copy of the terrain - needless to say, that's not very useful for most use cases, and we prefer a model that's known to be incorrect in many aspects e.g. it's shrunk at 1:24000 scale and has various types of detail intentionally omitted, making it less correct but more useful for the intended purpose.
When I first came across this quote from the poem "The Speed of Darkness" by Muriel Rukeyser I thought it was all too typical glib and hand-wavy poetic license. I was a STEM person, I knew the world was made of atoms, not stories.
But the years ticked by and eventually I realized that the atoms were just stories too.
Every time I do a search to check on the name and authorship of the poem, I'm always amazed how such a deep and profound line (to me) can occur in the middle of what otherwise seems an at-best mediocre piece of poetry (for me).
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 38.0 ms ] thread― Anaïs Nin
Or so some might say.
When I first came across this quote from the poem "The Speed of Darkness" by Muriel Rukeyser I thought it was all too typical glib and hand-wavy poetic license. I was a STEM person, I knew the world was made of atoms, not stories.
But the years ticked by and eventually I realized that the atoms were just stories too.
+1 for the poets.
> Whoever despises the clitoris despises the penis
> Whoever despises the penis despises the cunt