The perfect map paradox
The only perfect map is one that reproduces precisely all the details of whatever it is mapping, or the “territory.” Hence the paradox: If the map is as large as the territory, it has no value whatsoever. A perfect map is as useless as it is impossible to create.
The title of Borges’s story, “On Exactitude in Science,” is purposely ironic. Borges is poking fun at scientists who believe, quite naively, that their scientific models and theories are actually producing a perfect map of reality. If science can be understood as a map, a representation of what we see of the world, then nature is the territory.
This kinda reminds me of this field of computation where actual physical systems are being considered to make efficient computations. You kinda replace the real system by a simpler yet other real system, other than a traditional silicon computer...