Right. It's a dead thing that has no independent meaning. It doesn't even exist as a thing except conceputally. The referent is not even another dead thing, but a reality that appears nowhere in the map itself. It may have certain limited usefulness in the practical realm, but expecting it to lead to new insights ignores the fact that it's fundamentally an abstraction of the real, not in relationship to it.

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exe34 7 days ago | parent [-]

> but expecting it to lead to new insights ignores the fact that it's fundamentally an abstraction of the real, not in relationship to it.

Where do humans get new insights from?

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bithive123 7 days ago | parent [-]

Generally the experience of insight is prior to any discursive expression. We put our insights in terms of words, they do not arise as such.

	▲	exe34 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		Like VLMs then.