Are You Trying to Compress Reality?

There's this cartoon that sometimes gets shared on face of two people pointing at a a symbol scratched into the ground. One person, looking at it from one angle, says, it's the six, and the other person, looks at it from the other angle says, no, it's nine. And the point of the cartoon was, you know, they can both be right. Now, the real world is much, much more complicated than that. We're not trying to find one single fact like is tis is ironine. But we're trying to compress reality in representing it in very, in a much smaller piece of information than actual reality. And we're doing that in different