To be clear, there is nothing wrong with making maps in general—we need them. The issue, as scholar Alfred Korzybski, the developer of the field of general semantics, might have speculated, is that the left brain mistakes the map for the territory.5 We will spend a good deal of time navigating within the framework of this mistake. Our association of our true self with the constant voice in our head is an instance of mistaking the map (the voice) for the territory (who we really are). This error is one of the biggest reasons the illusion of self is so difficult to see.
