The Map is Not The Territory

I first came across General Semantics in the works of A.E. Van Vogt. His stories from sci-fi's 'golden age' had a common theme about the infinite potential of 'the human nervous system' which was very appealing to a brainy weedy kid. Part of the development of human kind, in these stories, involved a rejection of Aristotelian thinking. This Non-Aristotelian thinking is based upon Korzybski's General Semantics. But wait a minute what has this to do with code and RSpec and Cucumber?