Shallow Copy

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when we mistakenly believe that a mere copy is either a full representation of something else or even the thing itself. For example, a map is not the territory, it features some aspects of it, but not the full picture. During the creation of the map, some details are lost by necessity Distillment.

A copy can't ever be "as real" as what it represents, because in terms of information, we can't distill something without aggregating or removing some of the information. Similarly, when creating a copy, it necessarily goes through the subjective lens of the person who creates it. An architect, a bike driver, and a delivery person would all focus on something else when creating a map, leading to a partial, distorted representation of it.

It seems logical to say that every proxy is by definition a shallow copy of the "perfect" thing Idealism

Similarly, some people follow shallow copies as the meaning for their lives, like workoholics, without seeing how their choice is a shallow copy of the real thing lost in the finite

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