Now an entirely human-generated reply.
You have just admitted that you do not believe an accurate map of the whole territory can even exist. It is important to clarify exactly what that means, in this context. The territory in this case is reality itself, and we must start with a reminder of what it means to say that no such map has ever existed. It’s crucial, because this is exactly how modernism and postmodernism must be understood in terms of Western history.
Before the modern age the map of the whole territory was dictated by the Catholic authorities, and anybody who disagreed was likely to end up dead. The Protestant Reformation was a rebellion against exactly that situation, but the real intellectual shift came with the Scientific Revolution and the Age of Reason (aka “the Enlightenment”). This rejected the authority of both the Pope and the Ancients, and introduced a new map which split reality into two realms: mind and matter. Both Galileo and Descartes made the same split, and science was assigned matter as its legitimate realm, while philosophy and religion were assigned everything else.
This led to great improvements in the way society worked, including the quality of our knowledge, but all attempts to produce a new map of the whole territory ended in failure. This project reached its intellectual high point in the work of Hume (who formally explained why such a map appeared to be impossible), and Kant, who tried to heroically rescue the situation by inventing Transcendental Idealism. This was a new map, which replaced the mind/matter dualism with phenomenal/noumenal, and claimed both science and humans in general cannot have knowledge of noumena. So this was a map of only the half of the territory which is least real, with the other half blanked out, containing only the message “Whatever be here is forever unknowable to humans.”
Kant is the most important philosopher of the modern age, because it was this conclusion which led to the bifurcation of philosophy into analytic and continental. Continental philosophy progressively got further and further away from making any claims about knowledge of noumena, and ultimately ended up at a dead-end known as postmodernism. Postmodernism is the ultimate embodiment of Humean-Kantian skepticism: an accurate map of the whole is impossible, because we cannot escape the veil of perception.
Analytic philosophy and science have taken a very different stance. They never fully accepted Kant’s conclusions, and have been searching for an accurate map of the whole territory ever since. Both have so far failed, and both have given up hope that the other will ever succeed. Most scientists think philosophy is irrelevant and have no idea what Kant said or where postmodern anti-realism came from. However, their attempts at a whole map of reality have never been able to find a coherent place for consciousness, and cannot integrate quantum mechanics (which they typically claim to be the “map of the very small”) and Relativity and cosmology (their map of the large). They can’t explain why they need two maps, and are utterly oblivious to the fact that the only thing which can connect their two maps is consciousness itself. They cannot work this out on their own, and analytic philosophy has failed to explain it either. Why has analytic philosophy failed? The answer is academic siloing and peer review, which makes it radical interdisciplinary work impossible. But the end result is that AP has not produced a coherent map of the whole, because it is still struggling with the same problems Kant didn’t solve.
Conclusion: No coherent map of the whole of reality has ever been produced.
Which leaves us with the same question: why should anybody accept the postmodern/Continental claim that no coherent map of the whole of reality is even possible? Why should we believe analytical philosophy and science, between them, cannot produce such a map?
This question could not be more important. It’s at the absolute core of my systematic criticism of Second Rennaissance as a movement: nobody here gives the slightest **** about finding that map, because everybody is still committed to the postmodern relativist claim that no such map is even possible. In doing so, 2R is completely missing what actually matters here, which is that materialistic science is in deep crisis precisely because it knows its maps are broken, and that the key to making a Second Rennaissance actually happen is to finally provide a coherent map of the whole of reality. But this is heresy here, because it contradicts the first and only commandment of postmodernism: there is no such thing as truth.