Different But Useful

A map is not the territory it represents, but if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness. -Alfred Korzybski Recently I spent two weeks in Berkeley CA helping a client upgrade one of their control systems. I wasn’t...

Intake: Abstracting and Represenational Systems

We take in information from our environment in discrete steps. We abstract from the continuous data streams (aka “The Real World”) in the following order: Something happens (Event) We sense what happens (Object) We recognize what happens (Description) We...