The Map and the Territory Exploring the Foundations of Science Thought and Reality 1st edition by Shyam Wuppuluri 3319724782 9783319724782

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ISBN-10 :  3319724782 

ISBN-13 :  9783319724782

Author:  Shyam Wuppuluri 

This volume presents essays by pioneering thinkers including Tyler Burge, Gregory Chaitin, Daniel Dennett, Barry Mazur, Nicholas Humphrey, John Searle and Ian Stewart. Together they illuminate the Map/Territory Distinction that underlies at the foundation of the scientific method, thought and the very reality itself.  It is imperative to distinguish Map from the Territory while analyzing any subject but we often mistake map for the territory. Meaning for the Reference. Computational tool for what it computes. Representations are handy and tempting that we often end up committing the category error of over-marrying the representation with what is represented, so much so that the distinction between the former and the latter is lost. This error that has its roots in the pedagogy often generates a plethora of paradoxes/confusions which hinder the proper understanding of the subject. What are wave functions? Fields? Forces? Numbers? Sets? Classes? Operators? Functions? Alphabets and Sentences? Are they a part of our map (theory/representation)? Or do they actually belong to the territory (Reality)? Researcher, like a cartographer, clothes (or creates?) the reality by stitching multitudes of maps that simultaneously co-exist. A simple apple, for example, can be analyzed from several viewpoints beginning with evolution and biology, all the way down its microscopic quantum mechanical components. Is there a reality (or a real apple) out there apart from these maps? How do these various maps interact/intermingle with each other to produce a coherent reality that we interact with? Or do they not? Does our brain uses its own internal maps to facilitate “physicist/mathematician” in us to construct the maps about the external territories in turn? If so, what is the nature of these internal maps? Are there meta-maps? Evolution definitely fences our perception and thereby our ability to construct maps, revealing to us only those aspects beneficial for our survival. But the question is, to what extent? Is there a way out of the metaphorical Platonic cave erected around us by the nature? While “Map is not the territory” as Alfred Korzybski remarked, join us in this journey to know more, while we inquire on the nature and the reality of the maps which try to map the reality out there.  The book also includes a foreword by Sir Roger Penrose and an afterword by Dagfinn Follesdal.

The Map and the Territory Exploring the Foundations of Science Thought and Reality 1st Table of contents:

Part I. Philosophy
1. Maps and Territories in Scientific Investigation
2. On the Ontology/Epistemology Distinction
3. *Intuition* in Classical Indian Philosophy: Laying the Foundation for a Cross-Cultural Study
4. The Map and the Territory
5. Iconic Representation: Maps, Pictures, and Perception
6. Scientific Realism in the Post-Kuhnian Times
7. Quantum Mechanics, the Manifestation of the Territory, and the Evolution of Maps
Part II. Theoretical Physics
8. How We Make Sense of the World: Information, Map-Making, and the Scientific Narrative
9. Theories of Knowledge and Theories of Everything
10. Substantivalism and Relationism as Bad Cartography: Why Spatial Ontology Needs a Better Map
11. Force in Physics and in Metaphysics: A Brief History
12. Map and Territory in Physics: The Role of an Analogy in Black Hole Physics
13. Topological Foundations of Physics
14. Quantum Physics and Time from Inconsistent Marginals
15. Quantum Non-individuality: Background Concepts and Possibilities
16. Quantum Mechanics as a Semantic Problem
17. Mapping Quantum Reality: What to Do When the Territory Does Not Make Sense?
Part III. Mathematics/Computer Science
18. Mathematics, Maps, and Models
19. A View from Space: The Foundations of Mathematics
20. Reconciling the Realist/Anti Realist Dichotomy in the Philosophy of Mathematics
21. To the Edge of the Map
22. El Aleph, Or a Monster Lurks in the Belly of Computer Science
23. Two Algorithms for NP-Complete Problems and Their Relevance to Economics
24. Building the World Out of Information and Computation: Is God a Programmer, Not a Mathematician?
Part IV. Biology/Cognitive Science
25. The Invention of Consciousness
26. The Fantasy of First-Person Science
27. Rethinking Life
28. Genome Regulation Is All Non-local: Maps and Functions
29. A Philosophical Perspective on a Metatheory of Biological Evolution
30. On How Epistemology and Ontology Converge Through Evolution: The Applied Evolutionary Epistemological Approach
31. Quantum Perspectives on Evolution
Part V. MISC
32. In the Deserts of Cartography: Building, Dwelling, Mapping
33. Territory, Geographic Information, and the Map

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