THE ATLAS OF THE REALITY TUNNEL

Consciousness of abstracting

nature

Not the avoidance of abstraction — which is impossible — but continuous awareness that one is doing it. Every perception already leaves things out; every word leaves out more; every theory more again.

Korzybski named this as the actual goal of the discipline. Not better maps: awareness that you are holding one.

rhymes with

sephirahdaat

whyKnowledge that includes awareness of its own limits — which is why Daat is a gap rather than a resting place.