The Frontier Between the Map and the Territory - 9781803419794

Collective Ink

The Frontier Between the Map and the TerritoryNotes on the Intertwining between Matter and Information\nAuthor(s): Manuel Varela\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Collective Ink, United Kingdom\nImprint: Iff Books\nISBN-13: 9781803419794, 978-1803419794\nSynopsis\nDualism has a long track in philosophy. Although often overlooked, it supports much of our worldview, and lies at the center of many frontline scientific issues. This dialectic has specific phrasings in different scientific areas, but it is arguably the expression of the same conflict in diverse contexts: namely, the framework between Matter and Information, or, metaphorically, the frontier between the Territory and the Map. This book attempts to analyse this Map/Territory frontier in several quite different settings, including its relevance in the present trans-humanist projects. It tries to draw parallelisms and similarities between diverse territories ([url] the idea of Entropy as the distance between the Map and the Territ.