Interestingly, it just occurred to me that stuff like this – ‘information stuff’ – is exactly the kind of thing that, to the degree it’s helpful in a ‘map’, is something we should expect to find more or less as-is in the world itself.
The interesting thing about information is that it’s not stuff the same way matter is, but something that is created via experience and it only exists so long as there is physical stuff interacting to create it via energy transfer. And this is the key to addressing your question: the map (ontology) is only information while the territory (the ontic) is stuff and its experiences. It is only across the gap of intentionality that ontology is made to correspond to the ontic.
That’s kind of cryptic but I maybe do a better job of laying out what’s going on here.
The interesting thing about information is that it’s not stuff the same way matter is, but something that is created via experience and it only exists so long as there is physical stuff interacting to create it via energy transfer. And this is the key to addressing your question: the map (ontology) is only information while the territory (the ontic) is stuff and its experiences. It is only across the gap of intentionality that ontology is made to correspond to the ontic.
That’s kind of cryptic but I maybe do a better job of laying out what’s going on here.