"The Machine Understood the Map"
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Watching a search find the route does not show the machine understood the map — every turn was label-copying a clerk could execute in an unknown alphabet.
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Rename every location to a serial number and the trace runs identically, turn for turn.
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The deflation cuts both ways: bookkeeping that reliably produces the competent act is no insult — it is the field's founding discovery.
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- Nothing yet depends on this.