riff on "the map is not the territory"

One of the basic presuppositions of NLP is "the map is not the territory." That presupposes that there is a map and there is a territory, and they are separate or different.

I came across a new take in Ken Wilber's A Brief History of Everything.

"The mapmaker, the self, the thinking and knowing subject, is actually a product and a performance of that which it seeks to know and represent....the map is itself a performance of the territory it is trying to map."

Wilber says this nondualistic approach doesn't deny the representation paradigm altogether; but it does say that at a much deeper level, thought itself *cannot* deviate from the currents of the Kosmos, because thought is a product and performance of those very currents.

Thus, thought is the true Tao from which one cannot deviate.

"And as long as we are caught in merely trying to correct our maps, then we will miss the ways in which both correct and incorrect maps are equally expressions of Spirit."