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CREATED BY traumwind • LAST EDITED BY traumwind 8003 days AGO

just to chime in here... I myself don't have maps in my mind either. But that due to the fact that I have a very, very bnad sense of orientation altogether, and not the usefullness of maps per se.

If one states that 'maps' (or TG like visualisations) are a sub-optimal representation of the underlying relationships - because of the misleading nature of their visual representation - then why should a textual representation be superior?

Expressing relationships in words has very often lead to more confusion than it was any good. 'I don't have words' is a very comon saying when we are dealing with dificult concepts, be it emotions or be it multidimensional relations.

I'd conclude with saying: each representation has its very own strenghts and weaknesses. Depending on the intended use one might be superior to the other.
Let's just always keep in mind that a representation is exactly that, and not the thing itself.