even the most perfect map (mind) is compression... local knowledge organized for prediction... how different are we from the chemical signals ants leave behind?

not just facts but access patterns, associations

if you give a mouse a cookie he's going to ask for a glass of milk....

maps inside the territory are compression; lossless only goes so far- the Shannon limit; we want patterns to fit more world in our brain; writing narratives is how we do this

salience rules everything around me

"projection" is literally all we do

many minds many reductions; salience through the order of training & surprise; magic in playing here rather than passively existing within it