“A map is not the territory”
Source: Korzybski, Alfred (2000) Science and Sanity, 5th ed. (second printing), Institute of General Semantics p 750
Brains are an evolutionarily justifiable expense for species that rely on motion for survival. Brains provide internal mind-maps of the external environment in order to navigate it. The brain provides a mind-map, and the eye provides a compass to direct successful motion for growth, and survival.
The sea squirt (Tunicates), a member of the Chordates phylum that includes fish, birds, reptiles, and mammals, provides a famous example. It starts life with a cerebral ganglion and an eye to manage motion in order to find, and settle permanently on a fixed spot - at which point it eats its eye, and “brain”.
Born in the 1950s as a provincial French, rejecting the frozen mappings of “savoir se situer” led to America as a territory full of motion and growth.
Boston and Kendall Square became the place for four decades of riding innovation waves ranging from strategy consulting, personal computers, expert systems, weather forecasting, financial economics, the world-wide web, personal finance, retirement planning, statistics/machine learning, and ergodicity economics.
Reaching “normal” retirement age makes time slow down. No longer surfing at the pace of innovation waves, but instead standing on the beach looking at the waves at one’s own pace.
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