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The Black Swan and Godzilla

Posted by Bruce I. Kodish in January 13th, 2008  
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Posted in: Black Swan, Contributors, Godzilla, Maps and Territories, Popper, Taleb     

I happened to start reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s book The Black Swan one night while flipping channels (yes, I confess to sometimes watching television while reading), and saw that the 1998 American remake of Godzilla was on. I watched the movie whi…

The Black Swan

Posted by Bruce I. Kodish in January 8th, 2008  
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Posted in: Black Swan, Contributors, Korzybski, Maps and Territories     

Korzybski’s famous ‘aphorism’—”A map is not the territory” has become ubiquitous in some parts of the culture.The analogy seems so compelling and has become such a common part of people’s ‘mental furniture’, that many people like Nassim Nicholas Tale…